Journal
CELLS
Volume 9, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/cells9071675
Keywords
enhancer; transcription; evolution; promoter; chromatin loop; gene regulation
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- Russian Science Foundation [20-14-00201]
- Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation [075-15-2019-1661]
- Russian Science Foundation [20-14-00201] Funding Source: Russian Science Foundation
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The genomes of all organisms abound with variouscis-regulatory elements, which control gene activity. Transcriptional enhancers are a key group of such elements in eukaryotes and are DNA regions that form physical contacts with gene promoters and precisely orchestrate gene expression programs. Here, we follow gradual evolution of this regulatory system and discuss its features in different organisms. In eubacteria, an enhancer-like element is often a single regulatory element, is usually proximal to the core promoter, and is occupied by one or a few activators. Activation of gene expression in archaea is accompanied by the recruitment of an activator to several enhancer-like sites in the upstream promoter region. In eukaryotes, activation of expression is accompanied by the recruitment of activators to multiple enhancers, which may be distant from the core promoter, and the activators act through coactivators. The role of the general DNA architecture in transcription control increases in evolution. As a whole, it can be seen that enhancers of multicellular eukaryotes evolved from the corresponding prototypic enhancer-like regulatory elements with the gradually increasing genome size of organisms.
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