enhancer_trap_construct

Term ID

SO:0001479

Synonyms

• enhancer trap construct

Definition

An enhancer trap construct is a type of engineered plasmid which is designed to integrate into a genome and express a reporter when the expression from a basic minimal promoter is enhanced by genomic enhancer elements. Enhancer traps contain promoter elements and are not usually mutagenic. dh

References

Ontology

Sequence Ontology