autoregulator

English

Etymology

auto- +‎ regulator

Noun

autoregulator (plural autoregulators)

  1. (genetics, biochemistry) Any protein that regulates its own expression
    • 2015 August 13, “Binding of the Lactococcal Drug Dependent Transcriptional Regulator LmrR to Its Ligands and Responsive Promoter Regions”, in PLOS ONE‎, →DOI:
      LmrR was shown to be a transcriptional repressor of lmrCD expression and an autoregulator of its own expression.
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