repressor
What blocks expression
A repressor is something that suppresses or holds back.
In molecular biology, a repressor is a protein that binds to DNA and blocks gene expression—preventing certain genes from being transcribed.
More generally, repressor describes anything that inhibits or restrains: The medication acts as a repressor of inflammatory responses.
The word appears most often in scientific contexts.
Written version of speech
- operatorOne who works machinery
- lac operonBacterial lactose metabolism genes
- geneHereditary information unit
- regulatoryInvolving official oversight
inducible · mutation · phenotype · promoter · binding site · lambda phage
Refusal to accept reality
- inhibitionMental check on behavior
- unconsciousNot awake or aware
- defense mechanismUnconscious self-protective mental process
- traumaLasting psychological wound
memory · Freudian · psychoanalysis · avoidance · blocked · buried · coping · emotional
Favoring absolute control
- censorshipOfficial content restriction
- tyrannyOppressive, absolute governance
- dictatorRuler with total control
- silencingStopping noise or dissent
dissent · regime · totalitarian · control · subjugation · persecution · crackdown · intimidation
Something that triggers
- effectorOutput mechanism in systems
- polypeptideAmino acid polymer
- ligandMolecule that binds centrally
- enzymeProtein that hastens reactions
transcription
Written version of speech
- operatorOne who works machinery
- lac operonBacterial lactose metabolism genes
- geneHereditary information unit
regulatory · inducible · mutation · phenotype · promoter · binding site · lambda phage
denial
Refusal to accept reality
- inhibitionMental check on behavior
- unconsciousNot awake or aware
- defense mechanismUnconscious self-protective mental process
trauma · memory · Freudian · psychoanalysis · avoidance · blocked · buried · coping · emotional · sublimation
authoritarian
Favoring absolute control
- censorshipOfficial content restriction
- tyrannyOppressive, absolute governance
- dictatorRuler with total control
silencing · dissent · regime · totalitarian · control · subjugation · persecution · crackdown · intimidation · autocrat
inducer
Something that triggers
- effectorOutput mechanism in systems
- polypeptideAmino acid polymer
- ligandMolecule that binds centrally
- DNA elementsgene, promoter, enhancer, silencer, exon
- geneticsDNA, allele, genotype, genes, gene
- Bacterial Geneticsplasmid, plasmids, operon, conjugation, transduction
- DNA Proteinshistone, histones, activator, activators, DNA polymerase
- Operonslac operon, operator, promoter, inducer, attenuator
- Epigeneticsepigenetics, histone, nucleosome, methylation, acetylation
repressorliberator
One who frees others
enabler · promoter · facilitator · encourager · catalyst
- political repressionState suppression of opposition
- repressed memoryUnconsciously blocked past experience
- repressed memoriesUnconsciously blocked past experiences
- emotional repressionBlocking one's own feelings
- repressed desiresWants forced from awareness
- police repressionForceful control by authorities
repress, repressed, repression, repressive, repressing, represses, unrepressed, repressible, repressors