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Chromatin immunoprecipitation demonstrated that RNA polymerase II is bound at the C\/EBP\u03b2 promoter and at the 93\u00a0bp regulatory region in vivo, whereas ATF4 binds to the enhancer region only. Immediately following amino acid removal, the kinetics of binding for ATF4, ATF3, and C\/EBP\u03b2 itself to the 93\u00a0bp regulatory region were similar to those observed for the amino-acid-responsive asparagine synthetase gene. 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