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Definition of Enhancer
1. Noun. Anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities. "Pretty girls like plain friends as foils"
Definition of Enhancer
1. n. One who enhances; one who, or that which, raises the amount, price, etc.
Definition of Enhancer
1. Noun. Something that enhances ¹
2. Noun. (genetics) A short region of DNA that can increase transcription of genes ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Enhancer
1. one that enhances [n -S] - See also: enhances
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enhancer
Literary usage of Enhancer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story by Andrei Maylunas (2005)
"In this paper we report on the use of a bidirectional enhancer cloning vehicle
to isolate and characterize new enhancer sequences ..."
2. Transposable Elements in Plants: Sponsored CRIS/ICAR Projects and Bibliography by Andrew Kalinski (1995)
"... and the viral enhancer element specified similar expression pattern in maize
plants, as it was determined by the full CaMV 35S promoter in dicot and ..."
3. Transgenic Animals: Bibliography January 1991-February 1994 by Raymond Dobert (1996)
"BPV-1 mutants deleted of the constitutive enhancer could be complemented in trans
by the full-length virally encoded E2 transact ..."
4. Molecular Neurobiology: Proceedings of the Second Nimh Conference by Steven Zalcman (1995)
"The -116 to -81 region was subsequently shown to function as an enhancer in the
C2C12 muscle cell line (Wang et al. 1988). This was in agreement with the ..."
5. Novel Systems for the Study of Human Disease: From Basic Research to by OECD Staff (1998)
"This enhancer was selected because previously published work had indicated that,
as a component of the MLV LTR, it augmented expression in hematopoietic ..."
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