Tetracycline Response Element (TRE)
The tetracycline response element consists of 7 repeats of the 19bp bacterial tet-o sequence separated by spacer sequences. It is the tet-o that is recognized and bound by the TetR portion of Tet-On or Tet-Off. The TRE is usually placed upstream of a minimal promoter that has very low basal expression in the absence of bound Tet-Off (or Tet-On).
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