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. 2017 Feb 7;17(Suppl 1):12. doi: 10.1186/s12862-016-0865-z

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Fig. 2 — Different modes of the mix-and-matching mechanism: The promoter elements participating in mix-and-matching are divided to dsDNA (shaded in red) and ssDNA-interacting (shaded in green); In the upper part of the figure the complementation between the strengths of the dsDNA-interacting elements for achieving sufficient level of dsDNA-binding affinity is shown; in the lower part of the figure the complementation between the strengths of the dsDNA and ssDNA-interacting elements for achieving sufficient level of transcription activity is shown; the strength of the promoter element which is indicated by the size of the corresponding font and arrow