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autorepress

autorepress verb: to cause or undergo autorepression.

Verb

autorepress (third-person singular simple present autorepresses, present participle autorepressing, simple past and past participle autorepressed)

  1. To cause or undergo autorepression.
    • Since AdpA protein is autorepressing at the transcriptional level (Kato et al., 2005c), translational control mediated by the availability of charged bldA tRNA may determine the level of activation of the AdpA regulon under some conditions.2011, Paul Dyson, Streptomyces: Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, page 60

Forms of autorepress

third-person singular presentautorepresses
present participleautorepressing
past participleautorepressed
pastautorepressed

Origin of autorepress

From auto- + repress.

Words formed from autorepress

Questions about autorepress

What does autorepress mean?
Autorepress means to cause or undergo autorepression.
What part of speech is autorepress?
Autorepress is a verb.
What is the past tense of autorepress?
The past tense of autorepress is autorepressed.

Words near autorepress in the dictionary

  1. autorepeat
  2. autoreplicate
  3. autoreplicated
  4. autoreplies
  5. autoreply
  6. autorepress
  7. autorepressed
  8. autorepresses
  9. autorepressing
  10. autorepression
  11. autorepressive

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Adapted from Wiktionary: autorepress (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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