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cI proteins

cI proteins is the plural of cI protein.

Meaning of cI protein

Noun

cI protein (plural cI proteins)

  1. A repressor found in λ phage (a bacteriophage that particularly infects the human digestive bacteria, E. coli) which turns off genetic transcription at the phage's L and R promoters, and thus prevents multiple phages from infecting a single host.

Questions about cI proteins

What is cI proteins the plural of?
CI proteins is the plural of cI protein.

Words near cI proteins in the dictionary

  1. Chʻien-tʻang
  2. Chʼortiʼ
  3. Ch’eng-pei
  4. ci
  5. cI protein
  6. cI proteins
  7. ci-devant
  8. CI/CD
  9. cia
  10. Cia-Cia
  11. CIAAW

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