Anti-sense strand

Anti-sense strand
Sense, when applied in a molecular biology context, is a general concept used to compare the polarity of nucleic acid molecules, such as DNA or RNA, to other nucleic acid molecules. Depending on the context within molecular...

Anti-sense strand that does not code for a protein.
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Anti-sense strand: See discussion under "Sense strand".

AP-1 site: The binding site on DNA at which the transcription "factor" AP-1 binds, thereby altering the rate of transcription for the adjacent gene.

One strand of DNA (the anti-sense strand) is used as a template to produce a single strand of mRNA.

See also: Strand, Sense, DNA, Sense strand, Action