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autoregulator

autoregulator noun: any protein that regulates its own expression.

Noun

autoregulator (plural autoregulators)

  1. Any protein that regulates its own expression
    • LmrR was shown to be a transcriptional repressor of lmrCD expression and an autoregulator of its own expression.2015 August 13, “Binding of the Lactococcal Drug Dependent Transcriptional Regulator LmrR to Its Ligands and Responsive Promoter Regions”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of autoregulator

pluralautoregulators

Origin of autoregulator

From auto- + regulator.

Questions about autoregulator

What does autoregulator mean?
Autoregulator means any protein that regulates its own expression.
What part of speech is autoregulator?
Autoregulator is a noun.
What is the plural of autoregulator?
The plural of autoregulator is autoregulators.

Words near autoregulator in the dictionary

  1. autoregulates
  2. autoregulating
  3. autoregulation
  4. autoregulations
  5. autoregulative
  6. autoregulator
  7. autoregulators
  8. autoregulatory
  9. autoregulatory loop
  10. autoregulatory loops
  11. autoreinfection

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