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PROMOTER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who is an active supporter and advocate
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("promoter" is a kind of...):
adman; advertiser; advertizer (someone whose business is advertising)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "promoter"):
barker (someone who stands in front of a show (as at a carnival) and gives a loud colorful sales talk to potential customers)
Derivation:
promote (make publicity for; try to sell (a product))
Sense 2
Meaning:
A sponsor who books and stages public entertainments
Synonyms:
impresario; promoter; showman
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("promoter" is a kind of...):
booker; booking agent (someone who engages a person or company for performances)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "promoter"):
exhibitioner; exhibitor; shower (someone who organizes an exhibit for others to see)
organ-grinder (a street musician who plays a hand organ or hurdy-gurdy)
porn merchant; pornographer (someone who presents shows or sells writing or pictures that are sexually explicit in violation of the community mores)
Instance hyponyms:
Barnum; P. T. Barnum; Phineas Taylor Barnum (United States showman who popularized the circus (1810-1891))
Buffalo Bill; Buffalo Bill Cody; Cody; William F. Cody; William Frederick Cody (United States showman famous for his Wild West Show (1846-1917))
Diaghilev; Sergei Diaghilev; Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West (1872-1929))
D'Oyly Carte; Richard D'Oyly Carte (English impresario who brought Gilbert and Sullivan together and produced many of their operettas in London (1844-1901))
Hurok; Sol Hurok; Solomon Hurok (United States impresario who was born in Russia (1888-1974))
Charles Ringling; Ringling (United States showman whose song-and-dance troop evolved into a circus (1863-1926))
Context examples:
In addition, amsacrine may induce transcription of tumor promoter p53 protein and block p53 ubiquitination and proteasomal degradation, resulting in p53-dependent tumor cell apoptosis.
(Amsacrine, NCI Thesaurus)
Different coactivators are recruited by Pitx2 and other transcription factors like Myc to the Cyclin D2 promoter, with CBP/p300 recruited first, followed by NLI/Ldb/CLIM, Tip60/TRRAP, and PBP coactivators.
(Pitx2 Transcription Regulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
The researchers mapped the genomic distribution of TPT and found that TPT sits near regions of DNA that turn on antimicrobial genes, called promoters.
(Drug might help treat sepsis, NIH)
The researchers explored whether the variants might regulate AMD-relevant genes, possibly at promoters, which are sequences within DNA that turn genes on, or enhancers, which increase the activity of promoters.
(New study about genes linked to age-related macular degeneration, National Institutes of Health)
SMAD3 and SMAD4 proteins specifically recognize an eight base pair palindromic DNA sequence that confers TGF-beta responsiveness to a minimal promoter.
(Mothers Against Decapentaplegic Homolog 3, NCI Thesaurus)
As NPGL levels greatly increased in mice exposed to a low calorie diet, it is an appetite promoter, working in opposition to appetite suppressing hormones such as leptin.
(New Appetite Control Mechanism Found in Brain, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Mechanism of tumorigenesis involves the activation of cellular int genes by promoter/enhancer insertion.
(Mouse Mammary Tumor Virus, NCI Thesaurus)
A chromosomal inversion that positions the CGNL1 gene promoter into a position close to the CYP19A1 gene coding region is associated with aromatase excess syndrome.
(CGNL1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
MSI occurs in 15% of colon cancers and results from inactivation of the DNA mismatch repair (MMR) system by either MMR gene mutations or hypermethylation of the MLH1 promoter.
(Colorectal Cancer Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)
A fusion gene that results from a chromosomal translocation t(7;8)(p22;q13) which fuses the 5' promoter region of the COL1A2 gene upstream of the entire coding region of the PLAG1 gene.
(COL1A2/PLAG1 Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
