ENHANCER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enhancer mean? 

• ENHANCER (noun)
  The noun ENHANCER has 1 sense:

1. anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities

  Familiarity information: ENHANCER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENHANCER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

enhancer; foil

Context example:

pretty girls like plain friends as foils

Hypernyms ("enhancer" is a kind of...):

attention (a general interest that leads people to want to know more)

Derivation:

enhance (make better or more attractive)

 Context examples 

An oral tablet formulation containing zoledronic acid combined with a proprietary absorption enhancer for improved zoledronic acid gastrointestinal absorption with anti-bone-resorption activity.

(Enteric-Coated Zoledronic Acid Tablet MER-101, NCI Thesaurus)

Family of transcription factors involved in cytokine-induced activation of gene expression by binding to the enhancer; essential for HIV expression.

(NF-kB, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes enhancer of polycomb homolog 1 protein, is involved in both the regulation of histone acetylation and gene transcription.

(EPC1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Enhancer of polycomb homolog 1 (836 aa, ~93 kDa) is encoded by the human EPC1 gene.

(Enhancer of Polycomb Homolog 1, NCI Thesaurus)

Enhancer of filamentation 1 (834 aa, ~93 kDa) is encoded by the human NEDD9 gene.

(Enhancer of Filamentation 1, NCI Thesaurus)

A protein which binds to an enhancer.

(Enhancer Binding Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

Activated Notch cleavage by TACE and presenilin dependent gamma-secretase releases the intracellular domain to form a transcription complex with RBP-J kappa to activate enhancer of split genes.

(Notch Homolog 1, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes enhancer of zeste homolog 2 protein, plays a role in the repression of gene transcription and regulation of chromatin structure.

(EZH2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Ubiquitous, inducible, nuclear transcriptional activator that binds to enhancer elements in many different cell types and is activated by pathogenic stimuli.

(NF-kB, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Mechanism of tumorigenesis involves the activation of cellular int genes by promoter/enhancer insertion.

(Mouse Mammary Tumor Virus, NCI Thesaurus)