Term Information

Accession
GO:0001216
Name
DNA-binding transcription activator activity
Ontology
molecular_function
Synonyms
bacterial-type RNA polymerase core promoter proximal region sequence-specific DNA binding transcription factor activity involved in positive regulation of transcription, transcriptional activator activity, bacterial-type RNA polymerase proximal promoter sequence-specific DNA binding, bacterial-type RNA polymerase transcriptional activator activity, metal ion regulated sequence-specific DNA binding, bacterial-type RNA polymerase transcriptional activator activity, sequence-specific DNA binding, metal ion regulated sequence-specific DNA binding bacterial-type RNA polymerase transcription factor activity involved in positive regulation of transcription, sequence-specific DNA binding bacterial-type RNA polymerase transcription factor activity involved in positive regulation of transcription, transcriptional activator activity, bacterial-type RNA polymerase core promoter proximal region sequence-specific binding
Alternate IDs
GO:0001215, GO:0001140
Definition
A DNA-binding transcription factor activity that activates or increases transcription of specific gene sets. Source: GOC:txnOH-2018
Comment
For usage guidance, see comment in GO:0003700 ; DNA-binding transcription factor activity.
History
See term history for GO:0001216 at QuickGO
Subset
None
Feedback
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Parents of DNA-binding transcription activator activity (GO:0001216)
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DNA-binding transcription activator activity [BFO:0000051 relation] BFO:0000051  transcription cis-regulatory region binding (GO:0000976)
DNA-binding transcription activator activity [is_a relation] is_a  DNA-binding transcription factor activity (GO:0003700)
DNA-binding transcription activator activity [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  positive regulation of DNA-templated transcription (GO:0045893)
Children of DNA-binding transcription activator activity (GO:0001216)
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DNA-binding transcription activator activity, RNA polymerase II-specific (GO:0001228) [is_a relation] is_a  DNA-binding transcription activator activity
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