Crossword clues for enhancer
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Enhancer \En*han"cer\, n. One who enhances; one who, or that which, raises the amount, price, etc.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Something that enhances. 2 (context genetics English) A short region of DNA that can increase transcription of genes
WordNet
n. anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities; "pretty girls like plain friends as foils" [syn: foil]
Wikipedia
In genetics, an enhancer is a short (50-1500 bp) region of DNA that can be bound by proteins ( activators) to increase the likelihood that transcription of a particular gene will occur. These proteins are usually referred to as transcription factors. Enhancers are generally cis-acting, located up to 1 Mbp (1,000,000 bp) away from the gene and can be upstream or downstream from the start site, and either in the forward or backward direction. There are hundreds of thousands of enhancers in the human genome.
Enhancer may mean one of the following:
- Enhancer (genetics), a short region of DNA that can increase transcription of genes
- Exciter (effect), audio effect unit.
Usage examples of "enhancer".
Her metabolic enhancer kicked in, flooding her body with extra adrenaline and inducing extra adenosine triphosphate.
Keying her auditory enhancers up a notch, Jin fell into her usual leftguard position in the loose diamond formation around Layn and crossed with the others under the trees at the edge of the clearing.
Jase by this time was taking a daily handful of pills: myelin enhancers to slow the loss of nerve tissue, neurological boosters to help the brain rewire damaged areas, and secondary medication to treat the side effects of the primary medication.
The suggestion of vague forms made her increase the telescopies and switch on computerized image enhancers.
The Enhancers, known for their spirituality and integrity, commanded respect throughout the galaxy, and Arion had consented to allow Eirene to stand as the requisite witness.
Of the others, I find nothing, save a general Memory, not quite as old as that concerning the Soulstone, which indicates that the enhancer gems must be faceted according to a pattern I am now able to draw, should you require.
The animosity that simmered between Raven and Sevilen, as well as that between Rurick and Kalina, had to be stressful for the Enhancers.
He peered through the Starlite scope, using the powerful laser image enhancer, working the bolt action and levering a 7.
He pressed his eye to the Starlite night scope, using the laser image enhancer to give him a clearer view of his target.
Ryan had the Steyr, scanning the land all around through the powerful Starlite night scope with the laser image enhancer, his index finger on the trigger.
He put his eye to the Starlite night scope, using the power laser image enhancer, searching for the best target, the frightened children filling his field of vision.
Ari had studied most of the ideas about possible alien life forms that humans had come up with in the last few centuries and installed them in the databanks housed in his electronic enhancers.
The three spaceboats normally carried by a Twelfth Fleet cruiser of the Vulpecula class were absent and the entire compartment was now dedicated to ten 600X CE enhancers, their auxiliary equipment, and their bulky power supply.
Along every wall and in various alcoves, all manner of large equipment was stowed: phaser drills, portable tractor beam emitters, cargo-sized pattern enhancers, magnetic grapples, spools of carbon nanotube cable, color-coded drums of lubricants and plasma coolant, and other tools of the S.
One part of it would be a drug cocktail, a mixture of protein-synthesis enhancers, including even amphetamines and chemical relatives of strychnine, and then transmitters like serotonin, glutamate receptor sensitizers, cholinesterase, cyclic AMP, and so on.