Xenobiotic response element
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A xenobiotic response element is a portion of a gene or genes which serves to identify foreign materials, often as the beginning of a cascade which results in the elimination or processing of these materials.
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- Description at confex.com
- Boesch J, Miskimins R, Miskimins W, Lindahl R (1999). "The same xenobiotic response element is required for constitutive and inducible expression of the mammalian aldehyde dehydrogenase-3 gene". Arch Biochem Biophys 361 (2): 223-30. PMID 9882450.