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- noun Plural form of
corepressor .
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Two major corepressors, SMRT (silencing mediator for retinoid and thyroid hormone receptors) and N-CoR (nuclear receptor corepressor), have been shown to mediate repression associated with nuclear receptors and a myriad of other transcription factors.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Kristopher J Stanya and Hung-Ying Kao 2009
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Like most other nuclear receptors that form heterodimers with RXRs, LXRs reside within the nucleus, bound to LXR response elements (LXREs) and complexed with corepressors.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Li Zhou et al. 2009
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Recent studies have shown that FOXP3 is an acetylated protein in a large nuclear complex and FOXP3 actively represses transcription by recruiting enzymatic corepressors, including histone modification enzymes.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences current issue 2008
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These findings demonstrate an important role for corepressors SMRT and NCoR in the regulation of β-catenin-TCF4-mediated
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Grunseich C, Lu DD, Speh JC, Mandel G (2005) REST and its corepressors mediate plasticity of neuronal gene chromatin throughout neurogenesis.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Yuh-Man Sun et al. 2008
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