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- noun Plural form of
repressor .
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Examples
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Furthermore, RNA often controls the expression of genes, another role that had been thought to be at least mostly the domain of proteins called "repressors" and "transcription factors."
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Other regulatory proteins (such as repressors) influence transcription by binding to a region near to or overlapping the promoter, called the operator.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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Other regulatory proteins (such as repressors) influence transcription by binding to a region near to or overlapping the promoter, called the operator.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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Who can forget how in 2004 he triggered a firestorm describing Arabs as "suicide bombers, limb-amputators, women repressors"?
Hugh Muir's diary 2011
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Taken across that span, it has been propertarian wealth-accumulating aristocracies that were the market-repressors, 99% of the time!
David Brin’s Two-Dimensional Political Landscape « Isegoria 2008
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Obama wants to see in this world is a repressed citizenry throwing off the chains of their repressors while he is busy at the White House forge night and day stringing our links together.
Iran: The Biggest Domino - Dan_McLaughlin’s blog - RedState 2009
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The pathways through which gene expression regulates embryo patterning – through a bewildering series of diffusion gradients, repressors, enhancers, and feedback loops
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The pathways through which gene expression regulates embryo patterning – through a bewildering series of diffusion gradients, repressors, enhancers, and feedback loops – are now being dissected in some detail using these mutations and other techniques.
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While Alexander and his family may be safely ensconced in the dry but relatively safe harbor of Windhoek, Verint's security products live on, providing "actionable intelligence solutions" to repressors world wide.
Obama Administration Endorses Continued Spying on Americans 2009
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It's heartbreaking to see how they've robbed from the central bank of Honduras to pay the repressors.
Robert Naiman: Popular Resistance to the Coup in Honduras: an Interview with Bertha Caceres 2009
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