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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
derepress . - adjective genetics, of a gene
activated by the removal of arepressor
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Examples
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"The simplest explanation is that the information was present in a latent state and simply revealed or derepressed when the chromosome segments were placed in a new configuration (Davison [1993])."
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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However, it was not known whether the antigens were expressed by viral genes or by derepressed cellular genes.
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An operon being derepressed, a structural gene can express itself, and a new enzyme is produced which assures the autonomous multiplication of the viral genetic material and permits the expression of all of the genes that regulate viral structures.
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A lysogenic bacterium produces virions if it is derepressed, and here we are again entangled in the problem of induction.
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M, et al. (1999) Trichome cell growth in Arabidopsis thaliana can be derepressed by mutations in at least five genes.
PLoS Biology: New Articles Adrienne H. K. Roeder et al. 2010
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Third, our results also showed that most mutations that allow cryptic initiation do not impair H3 K36 di - or trimethylation; therefore, loss of this histone modification is not the sole mechanism by which cryptic promoters are derepressed.
bilby commented on the word derepressed
Do it again.
December 6, 2008