Repressor

Word REPRESSOR
Character 9
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Definitions and meanings of "Repressor"

What do we mean by repressor?

One that represses. noun

A protein that binds to an operator, blocking transcription of an operon and the enzymes for which the operon codes. noun

One who represses or restrains. noun

Anything that represses. noun

Any protein that binds to DNA and thus regulates the expression of genes by decreasing the rate of transcription noun

An agent that represses noun

Anything that represses.

Any protein that binds to DNA and thus regulates the expression of genes by decreasing the rate of transcription.

(n.) The food that one eats once arrived at home after a day at school. This food represses you hunger. Urban Dictionary

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The word "repressor" in example sentences

This control function had been defined genetically by the work of Jacob and Monod, but a repressor is made in such small amounts that it was an extraordinarily elusive biochemical entity. ❋ Unknown (1981)

A repressor is a protein product made by one gene in the bacterium in order to control a second gene by turning it off when its product is not wanted. ❋ Unknown (1981)

The repressor is produced by a regulator gene and acts on an operator gene. ❋ Unknown (1972)

Now, then, the repressor is responsible for immunity. ❋ Unknown (1972)

The reason for this, the scientists discovered, is that a protein called a repressor molecule attaches itself to the DNA site where the copying into RNA begins, thus blocking off the DNA and preventing the gene from producing the RNA responsible for the synthesis of the enzyme. ❋ Steve Carper (2006)

Translational regulation occurs through the binding of specific molecules, called repressor proteins, to a sequence found on an RNA molecule. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"repressor," limiting the activity of IGF2 in the ancestral pig genome and repressing muscle growth in boars. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is a waster of human captial and a repressor of liberty, opportunity and expression. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I wanted to incorporate some elements which weren't known in 1936 - like blobby archicture (e.g., that of the 1960's), and the DNA double helix (discovered in 1953) and the crystal structure of lambda repressor (not sure of the exact date, but probably mid-1980's). ❋ Frankwu (2009)

I drew lots of buildings with weird shapes, some blobtacular, some with spikes on the top, some with super-high walkways connecting them to other buildings, and one with a sculpture of a DNA double helix bound to a lambda repressor protein. ❋ Frankwu (2009)

For convenience we say that A is a transcription factor, B is a repressor protein, C is DNA, D is messenger RNA, E is a ribosome, F is a signaling protein, G a receptor, H a growth factor. ❋ Unknown (2008)

What if one allele of a repressor gene is defective? ❋ Rosie Redfield (2009)

Work on induction showed that the inducer deactivated a repressor, a protein that was bound to the DNA and stopped synthesis of the messenger RNA that produced the enzymes. ❋ Darden, Lindley (2009)

Interfield relations included part-whole relations (e.g., genes are parts of chromosomes), structure-function relations (e.g., an identified molecule functions as the repressor in gene regulation), and cause and effect relations. ❋ Darden, Lindley (2009)

"China should have had a better record in 2008 and upheld its promise to ensure press freedom during the Olympics, but instead it chose to remain the world's largest repressor of media freedom." ❋ Unknown (2009)

I do not put our own democratic government in the same category with the repressor states being upended, or our own dissatisfactions in a class with theirs. ❋ Unknown (2008)

From Lenin to Mugabe, violent reaction to violent power will become itself, a violent repressor with a new name. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Damn! [I need] some [serious] post-school hunger-repressors [quick]! ❋ Hungrykid (2008)

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