Downstream promoter element
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Downstream promoter element
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In molecular biology, a downstream promoter element (DPE) is a core promoter element. Like all core promoters, the DPE plays an important role in the initiation of gene transcription by RNA polymerase II. The DPE was first described by T. W. Burke and James T. Kadonaga in Drosophila melanogaster at the University of California, San Diego in 1996. It is also present in other species including humans, but not Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Together with the initiator motif (Inr), another core promoter
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