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termination sequence

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termination sequence,
(in molecular genetics) a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) segment at the end of a unit that is transcribed to messenger ribonucleic acid from the DNA template.


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The DNA molecules are useful for specifying a gene product in cells, either as a promoter or as a protein coding sequence or as an UTR or as a 3' termination sequence, and are also useful in controlling the behavior of a gene in the chromosome, in controlling the expression of a gene or as tools for genetic mapping, recognizing or isolating identical or related DNA fragments, or identification of a particular individual organism, or for clustering of a group of organisms with a common trait.
The bovine growth hormone polyadenylation (bgh-polyA) signal is a specialized termination sequence useful for producing pharmaceutical proteins and peptides in mammalian cells, increasing gene expression in gene therapy, and producing recombinant proteins in transgenic animals.
The bgh-polyA signal is a specialized termination sequence useful for producing pharmaceutical proteins and peptides in mammalian cells, increasing gene expression in gene therapy, and producing recombinant proteins in transgenic animals.
 
 
 
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