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autorepression

autorepression noun: repression of the expression of a protein by the protein itself.

Noun

autorepression (uncountable)

  1. repression of the expression of a protein by the protein itself
    • An incomplete PadR motif is located in the p/o of lmrR, this palindromic sequence is only weakly recognized by LmrR. A proposed mechanism for the binding of LmrR to the p/o regions and the regulation of lmrCD and lmrR is as followed: the binding of two LmrR dimers to PlmrCD, together with an...2015 August 13, “Binding of the Lactococcal Drug Dependent Transcriptional Regulator LmrR to Its Ligands and Responsive Promoter Regions”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of autorepression

From auto- + repression.

Questions about autorepression

What does autorepression mean?
Autorepression means repression of the expression of a protein by the protein itself.
What part of speech is autorepression?
Autorepression is a noun.

Words near autorepression in the dictionary

  1. autoreply
  2. autorepress
  3. autorepressed
  4. autorepresses
  5. autorepressing
  6. autorepression
  7. autorepressive
  8. autorepressor
  9. autorepressors
  10. autoreproduction
  11. autoreproductions

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