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Term | Definition | Rating |
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RF | Reference Factor | |
SF | Symmetry Factor | |
HEGFR | Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor | |
PCF | Primary Collision Factor | |
BPF | Bat Performance Factor | |
SOF | Site Occupation Factor | |
UTF | Undifferentiated embryonic cell Transcription Factor | |
EF | Enjoyment Factor | |
VNF | Viral Neutralizing Factor | |
MF | Multiplier Factor | |
VIF | Virus Infectivity Factor | |
BLF | Bush League Factor | |
KF | Kinematical Factor | |
CCAF | Chicken Chemotactic and Angiogenic Factor | |
OIF | Optimum Index Factor | |
BF | Blend Factor | |
MTF1 | Metal-responsive Transcription Factor 1 | |
NFP | Net Factor Payments | |
ASF | Additional Selection Factor | |
LF | Latency Factor | |
HAF | HCG (Human Chorionic Gonadotropin) Associated Factor | |
LCRF | Luminal CCK-Releasing Factor | |
FEM | Factor Essential for Methicillin | |
VUF | Voltage Unbalance Factor | |
CRF | Contrast Rendering Factor |
What does rho factor mean?
- Rho factor
- A ρ factor (Rho factor) is a bacterial protein involved in the termination of transcription. Rho factor binds to the transcription terminator pause site, an exposed region of single stranded RNA (a stretch of 72 nucleotides) after the open reading frame at C-rich/G-poor sequences that lack obvious secondary structure.Rho factor is an essential transcription protein in bacteria. In Escherichia coli, it is a ~274.6 kD hexamer of identical subunits. Each subunit has an RNA-binding domain and an ATP-hydrolysis domain. Rho is a member of the RecA/SF5 family of ATP-dependent hexameric helicases that function by wrapping nucleic acids around a single cleft extending around the entire hexamer. Rho functions as an ancillary factor for RNA polymerase. There are two types of transcriptional termination in bacteria, rho-dependent termination and intrinsic termination (also called Rho-independent termination). Rho-dependent terminators account for about half of the E. coli factor-dependent terminators. Other termination factors discovered in E. coli include Tau and nusA. Rho-dependent terminators were first discovered in bacteriophage genomes.
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