represser
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of represser
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at repress, -er 1
Example Sentences
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Isolating and analyzing the substance that had combined with the tracer molecules, they discovered that it was a large protein molecule � their long-sought "lactose represser."
From Time Magazine Archive
To isolate the represser, Biophysicist Walter Gilbert and Biochemist Benno Muller-Hill decided to work with a species of simple bacteria called Escherichia coli, which have a healthy appetite for lactose, a sugar found in milk.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ptashne's experiment also indicated that the represser turned off the appropriate cell genes by binding itself tightly to them, somehow preventing the production of an enzyme in the process.
From Time Magazine Archive
The remaining genes, they proposed, were deactivated �turned off by mysterious represser substances produced by other genes.
From Time Magazine Archive
On these occasions he made such extraordinary and sagacious remarks that Madame de Balzac, in her character of represser, felt obliged to remark sharply, "You cannot possibly understand what you are saying, Honore!"
From Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings by Sandars, Mary F. (Mary Frances)
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