Concept information
Preferred term
Repressor Proteins
Type
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Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- AraC Transcription Factor
- CCCTC-Binding Factor
- Co-Repressor Proteins
- COUP Transcription Factor II
- ETS Translocation Variant 6 Protein
- Lac Repressors
- Polycomb-Group Proteins
- Positive Regulatory Domain I-Binding Factor 1
- Tripartite Motif-Containing Protein 28
- Zinc Finger E-box-Binding Homeobox 1
- Zinc Finger E-box Binding Homeobox 2
- Zinc Finger Protein Gli3
Entry terms
- Repressor Molecules
- Silencing Factors, Transcriptional
- Transcriptional Silencing Factors
Scope note
- Proteins which maintain the transcriptional quiescence of specific GENES or OPERONS. Classical repressor proteins are DNA-binding proteins that are normally bound to the OPERATOR REGION of an operon, or the ENHANCER SEQUENCES of a gene until a signal occurs that causes their release.
History note
- 91(79); was see under TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS 1979-90
In other languages
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Finnish
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repressori
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repressoriproteiini
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repressoriproteiinit
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repressorit
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säätelyproteiini
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Swedish
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D012097
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