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repressor
[ ri-pres-er ]
noun
- Genetics. a protein that binds DNA at an operator site and thereby prevents transcription of one or more adjacent genes.
repressor
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noun
- 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
repressor
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- A protein that binds to an operator, blocking transcription of an operon and the enzymes for which the operon codes.
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of repressor1
Example Sentences
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.
And that means that people are all of a sudden seeing, in very vivid detail, what repressors can accomplish with disinformation campaigns.
The researchers enhanced this silencing effect by hitching Cas9 to a repressor, another protein that inhibits gene expression.
In 1957, Pardee, Monod, and Jacob discovered that the lactose operon was controlled by a single master switch—a protein eventually called the repressor.
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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