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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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
In 1967 the Harvard molecular biologist detected a molecule, called a "represser," that regulates the way a gene functions, possibly a key in the study of cancer.
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
Ptashne was majoring in philosophy at Reed College in Portland, Ore., when he became fascinated by a theory about represser molecules and switched to chemistry in his senior year.
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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