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Accession
GO:0000987
Name
cis-regulatory region sequence-specific DNA binding
Ontology
molecular_function
Synonyms
cis-regulatory region binding, enhancer binding, enhancer sequence-specific DNA binding, bacterial-type RNA polymerase core promoter proximal region sequence-specific DNA binding, bacterial-type RNA polymerase enhancer sequence-specific DNA binding, bacterial-type RNA polymerase upstream activating sequence (UAS) sequence-specific DNA binding, bacterial-type cis-regulatory region sequence-specific DNA binding, bacterial-type proximal promoter sequence-specific DNA binding, core promoter proximal region DNA binding, core promoter proximal region sequence-specific DNA binding, eubacterial-type RNA polymerase regulatory transcription factor sequence-specific DNA binding, promoter proximal region sequence-specific DNA binding, proximal promoter sequence-specific DNA binding
Alternate IDs
GO:0001150, GO:0000986, GO:0001159, GO:0035326, GO:0001158
Definition
Binding to a specific upstream regulatory DNA sequence (transcription factor recognition sequence or binding site, located in cis relative to the transcription start site (i.e., on the same strand of DNA) of a gene transcribed by some RNA polymerase. Cis-regulatory sites are often referred to as a sequence motifs, enhancers, or silencers. Source: GOC:txnOH-2018
Comment
None
History
See term history for GO:0000987 at QuickGO
Chem. react.
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Subset
None
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Parents of cis-regulatory region sequence-specific DNA binding (GO:0000987)
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cis-regulatory region sequence-specific DNA binding [is_a relation] is_a  transcription cis-regulatory region binding (GO:0000976)
Children of cis-regulatory region sequence-specific DNA binding (GO:0000987)
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RNA polymerase III cis-regulatory region sequence-specific DNA binding (GO:0000992) [is_a relation] is_a  cis-regulatory region sequence-specific DNA binding
RNA polymerase II cis-regulatory region sequence-specific DNA binding (GO:0000978) [is_a relation] is_a  cis-regulatory region sequence-specific DNA binding
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