Category:SO:0000167 ! promoter

id: SO:0000167
name: promoter
def: "A regulatory_region composed of the TSS(s) and binding sites for TF_complexes of the basal transcription machinery." [SO:regcreative]
comment: This term is mapped to MGED. Do not obsolete without consulting MGED ontology. The region on a DNA molecule involved in RNA polymerase binding to initiate transcription.
subset: SOFA
synonym: "promoter sequence" EXACT []
xref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promoter "wiki"
is_a: SO:0001055 ! transcriptional_cis_regulatory_region

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