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autorepression

noun

Etymology

From auto- + repression.

  1. derived from repressus
  2. formed as repression — “repress + -ion”
  3. prefixed as autorepression — “auto + repression”

Definitions

  1. repression of the expression of a protein by the protein itself

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for autorepression. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA