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repressor

[ ri-pres-er ]

noun

  1. Genetics. a protein that binds DNA at an operator site and thereby prevents transcription of one or more adjacent genes.


repressor

/ °ùɪˈ±è°ùÉ›²õÉ™ /

noun

  1. biochem a protein synthesized under the control of a repressor gene, which has the capacity to bind to the operator gene and thereby shut off the expression of the structural genes of an operon
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repressor

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  1. A protein that binds to an operator, blocking transcription of an operon and the enzymes for which the operon codes.
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Origin of repressor1

From Latin, dating back to 1955–60; repress, -tor
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But Mr. Etchecolatz surrendered few secrets during a series of trials over the decades as crowds jeered him as a “killer†and “repressor,†once throwing red paint at him in 2006.

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And that means that people are all of a sudden seeing, in very vivid detail, what repressors can accomplish with disinformation campaigns.

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The researchers enhanced this silencing effect by hitching Cas9 to a repressor, another protein that inhibits gene expression.

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In 1957, Pardee, Monod, and Jacob discovered that the lactose operon was controlled by a single master switch—a protein eventually called the repressor.

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Researchers genetically altered monkeyflowers in the laboratory to observe how the two genes generate an activator molecule and a repressor molecule to produce the stunning variety of the blossoms.

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