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enhanceosome

A highly-ordered cluster of tissue-specific transcription factors that assemble at regulatory elements of a eukaryotic gene and which, by their arrangement in space, act synergistically and purportedly account for the diversity and tissue specificity of gene expression.Carey, M. (1998) Cell 92, 5-8

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