Repression of genes by DNA methylation depends on CpG density and promoter strength: evidence for involvement of a methyl‐CpG binding protein.

J Boyes, A Bird - The EMBO journal, 1992 - embopress.org
… on genes with a low density of methyl-CpG. We found thatsparse methylation could repress
transfected genes … Densely methylated genes, however, could not be reactivated by the …

Promoter-intrinsic and local chromatin features determine gene repression in LADs

C Leemans, MCH van der Zwalm, L Brueckner… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
promoters are intrinsically less sensitive to LAD repression. This is not simply explained by
promoter strength but by the interplay between promoter … of gene regulation by repressive

Mechanisms of transcriptional repression

F Rojo - Current opinion in microbiology, 2001 - Elsevier
… One example is the repression of the promoters for the E. coli dnaA gene by oligomerization
… Indeed, promoter strength is known to be a compromise between efficient recognition by …

Controlling promoter strength and regulation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae using synthetic hybrid promoters

J Blazeck, R Garg, B Reed… - Biotechnology and …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
promoter approach for controlling constitutive gene expression, we sought to apply our
approach to control promoter … element to P GAL further repressed gene expression levels by 7% …

Position and density effects on repression by stationary and mobile DNA-binding proteins.

SJ Elledge, RW Davis - Genes & development, 1989 - genesdev.cshlp.org
promoter strength of the regulated promoters used in this study. The LacZY genes on pNN387
lack a promoter… interfere with the expression of the aadA gene. The arrows in this diagram …

Tuning Promoter Strength through RNA Polymerase Binding Site Design in Escherichia coli

RC Brewster, DL Jones, R Phillips - PLoS computational biology, 2012 - journals.plos.org
repression later in this work. The direct correlation between these two measurements of gene
… vs average mRNA copy number for every promoter strength, exhibiting an excellent linear …

Repression of transcription initiation in bacteria

F Rojo - Journal of bacteriology, 1999 - Am Soc Microbiol
… and/or repression of a number of genes to adapt cell … of mechanisms to regulate gene
expression affecting virtually … The strength of a promoter relies on the combined efficiency …

Silent domains are assembled continuously from the telomere and are defined by promoter distance and strength, and by SIR3 dosage.

H Renauld, OM Aparicio, PD Zierath… - Genes & …, 1993 - genesdev.cshlp.org
… that a gene's promoter is a major determinant in cis for effective transcriptional repression
near … 2), we propose that repression is primarily exerted on the gene's promoter and therefore …

Multiple gene repression in cyanobacteria using CRISPRi

L Yao, I Cengic, J Anfelt, EP Hudson - ACS synthetic biology, 2016 - ACS Publications
… We show that genes can be effectively repressed in multiplex format, and … promoters were
tested for both dCas9 and sgRNA and we found that a tightly repressed, low-strength promoter

Synergy of repression and silencing gradients along the chromosome

P Ratna, S Scherrer, C Fleischli, A Becskei - Journal of molecular biology, 2009 - Elsevier
… by sequence-specific repressors to promoters of genes regulated by signals triggered by …
the reporter gene was lengthened in the dual repression constructs, the repression strength