The apolipoprotein B (apoB) 5′ UTR cis regulatory element is an RNA element located in the

5′ UTR The 5′ untranslated region (also known as 5′ UTR, leader sequence, transcript leader, or leader RNA) is the region of a messenger RNA (mRNA) that is directly upstream from the initiation codon. This region is important for the regulation of t ...

of the human apoB

mRNA In molecular biology, messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) is a single-stranded molecule of RNA that corresponds to the genetic sequence of a gene, and is read by a ribosome in the process of Protein biosynthesis, synthesizing a protein. mRNA is ...

. This structured element increases

translation Translation is the communication of the semantics, meaning of a #Source and target languages, source-language text by means of an Dynamic and formal equivalence, equivalent #Source and target languages, target-language text. The English la ...

of the apoB protein or a reporter gene.

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* Cis-regulatory RNA elements {{DEFAULTSORT:Apolipoprotein B (apoB) 5' UTR cis-regulatory element