FNR Promotor

To tune the level of protein expression, we used decoy sites. Decoy sites are tandem repeats of DNA where transcriptional factor can bind to but don't promote gene expression. Therefore it competes with promoter sites and lowers the gene expression rate. LeeDecoyTek-Hyung Lee and Narendra Maheshri, A regulatory role for repeated decoy transcription factor binding sites in target gene expression. Molecular Systems Biology 8, 576 (2012)

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