In order to facilitate further discussion, the following terminology will be used hereafter: […] the substance thus decelerating enzyme synthesis is a ‘represser’ (‘repressor’).
- regulator gene
- regulator organ
- regulatory development
- reification
- release
- releaser
- reparative regeneration
- replication
- replicator
- replicon
- repressor
- reproducer
- reproduction
- reproduction biology
- reproductive community
- reproductive organ
- reproductive selection
- reproductive value
- reptiles
- requirement niche
- resilience
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repressorRepressor (ger.)
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A protein which by its action on specific DNA or RNA sequences inhibits the transcription or translation of a gene or set of genes, esp. those coding for an enzyme or enzymes. Also repressor protein. (OED 2011)
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Vogel, H.J. (1957). Repression and induction as control mechanisms of enzyme biogenesis: the “adaptive” formation of acetyl ornithinase. In: McElroy, W.D. & Glass, B. (eds.). A Symposium on the Chemical Basis of Heredity, 276-289: 286.