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Repressor Proteins

"Repressor Proteins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Proteins which maintain the transcriptional quiescence of specific GENES or OPERONS. Classical repressor proteins are DNA-binding proteins that are normally bound to the OPERATOR REGION of an operon, or the ENHANCER SEQUENCES of a gene until a signal occurs that causes their release.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Repressor Proteins" by people in this website by year, and whether "Repressor Proteins" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 94 publications over 25 distinct years, with a maximum of 9 publications in 2006
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