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Preferred term

Repressor Proteins  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D012097

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