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Definition of gene silencing in English: gene silencingnoun mass nounThe switching off of the expression of a gene, for example by the introduction of an antisense RNA that blocks translation of the messenger RNA. Example sentencesExamples - This outcome is in contrast to that with sex-specific differences in selection, which can cause extreme differences in gene expression and even gene silencing.
- It suggests novel roles for transcription factors in repression and furthers our knowledge of alternative mechanisms of gene silencing in yeast.
- Sequence specific triplex formation can be applied for gene targeting, gene silencing and mutagenesis.
- We suspect that there is a system in humans that causes gene silencing, but we don't know the mechanism yet.
- This idea was supported by the observation that inverted-repeat sequences could induce gene silencing in plants and in C. elegans.
- It is shown that a mechanism of gene silencing was responsible for the lack of expression of the transgene and its lack of effects on nitrate contents in lettuce leaves.
- Polyploidization can induce a flurry of genetic and epigenetic events that include DNA sequence elimination and gene silencing.
- Consistent with the hypothesized gene silencing, the level of reporter expression in transgenic strains carrying multicopy arrays is rarely a simple multiple of expression observed with rare single-copy integration events.
- Duplicate gene expression is common, as rates of gene silencing are much lower than predicted by traditional models.
- The antisense or co-supression of gene expression, collectively known as post-transcriptional gene silencing, has been particularly versatile and powerful in studies of plant metabolism.
- A number of studies have attempted to address this relationship as well as the role of somatic pairing in gene silencing.
- In cotton, uniparental gene silencing was observed to switch during development and affected both recent and established allopolyploids.
- Such mutants have been generated by chemical mutagenesis, gene disruption, and antisense gene silencing.
- How is gene silencing or activation established and maintained?
- The organization of DNA into euchromatin and heterochromatin is implicated in gene silencing.
- It is also possible that small RNAs and RNA interference play a role in gene silencing in polyploids.
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