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Concept information
Preferred term
transcription factors
Type
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Chemical
Definition
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Endogenous substances, usually proteins, which are effective in the initiation, stimulation, or termination of the genetic transcription process.
Source: Medical Subject Headings
Type: Concept definition
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- aryl hydrocarbon receptors
- basic helix-loop-helix transcription factors
- basic-leucine zipper transcription factors
- GATA transcription factors
- host-cell factors
- interferon regulatory factors
- lens epithelium-derived growth factor
- peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors
- repressor proteins
- retinoic acid receptors
- sigma factors
- steroid receptors
- transactivators
- transcriptional elongation factors
- transcription factor NF-kappa B
Synonyms
- sequence-specific DNA-binding factors
- transcriptional factors
- transcriptional regulators
- transcription regulators
- transcription termination factors
In other languages
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Spanish
URI
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/34250
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