Examples of 'repressor' in a sentence

Meaning of "repressor"

repressor (noun) - a substance or protein that inhibits gene expression or the activity of other proteins in biological processes
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  • Anything that represses.
  • Any protein that binds to DNA and thus regulates the expression of genes by decreasing the rate of transcription.

How to use "repressor" in a sentence

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It acts as a transcriptional repressor and as a gene silencer.
It can also prevent the action of a repressor.
Acts as both a repressor and activator of transcription.
This protein is believed to function as a transcriptional repressor.
One type of repressor sequence is an insulator sequence.
In this strain a wild type k repressor is present.
Adding a repressor bound to a solid support and.
In this strain a wild type λ repressor is present.
This repressor is highly expressed in sclerotome.
Coding region for repressor of primer.
The repressor activity of these proteins is currently unknown.
It is preferred that the repressor portion is a modifying portion.
Lac repressor controls the synthesis of three proteins.
The tetracycline repressor is such a receptor.
It can also act as a transcriptional repressor.

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The prokaryotic repressor may be a tet repressor.
The lacI gene synthesizes LacI repressor protein.
The lacZYA repressor is constitutively expressed.
This gene encodes a hormone inducible transcriptional repressor.
An example of a repressor protein is the methionine repressor MetJ.
An operon is controlled by an operator gene and a repressor gene.
Being a cuban repressor is not good business.
An essential question is the chemical nature of the repressor.
The repressor protein made by the.
Activation of the gene requires removal of the repressor.
The repressor is encoded by a chromosomal gene.
Activating genes requires switching off the repressor.
The lac repressor is encoded by the lacl gene.
A reagent employed in the reaction contains a signal repressor.
The novel repressor titration system works as follows.
It could act either as an enhancer or as a repressor.
Systems using a repressor with the operon are preferred.
Alemães conjures up an image of a tall white uniformed repressor.
Putative acrab operon repressor transcription regulator protein.
The regulatory protein may be a tet repressor protein.
The lac repressor is encoded by the lacI gene.
Its methylationdependent transcriptional repressor function remains poorly documented.
The repressor therefore exhibits transdominance.
One example of a repressor is phosphate.
Then a repressor protein that blocks the operating cells.
This helped me to understand the absolute power of the repressor.
The lac repressor is coded in the lacl gene.
The complex is thought to function as a translation repressor in embryonic development.
The lac repressor LacI is a tetramer of identical subunits.
The gene is expressed because an inducer binds to the repressor.
The repressor function is no longer the main attribute of power.
Cif is negatively regulated by the TetR family repressor CifR.
The repressor prevents the transcription of the structural genes.
Disclosed herein is a novel variant of the gluconate repressor protein.
Transcriptional repressor domains are also well known in the art.

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