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Transcription Initiation Site

"Transcription Initiation Site" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The first nucleotide of a transcribed DNA sequence where RNA polymerase (DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE) begins synthesizing the RNA transcript.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Transcription Initiation Site" by people in this website by year, and whether "Transcription Initiation Site" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 9 publications over 7 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2014
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