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An enzyme repressor is a substance that negatively regulates the amount of an enzyme by decreasing the rate of its biosynthesis.[1] It is the opposite of an enzyme inducer.

  1. ^ "Repression - enzymatic reactions". Encyclopedia Britannica.

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Enzyme repressor

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An enzyme repressor is a substance that negatively regulates the amount of an enzyme by decreasing the rate of its biosynthesis. It is the opposite of...

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Repressor

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bind to the repressor and make it bind to the operator tightly, which decreases transcription. A repressor that binds with a co-repressor is termed an...

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Enzyme inducer

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of the gene coding for the enzyme.[page needed] It is the opposite of an enzyme repressor. There are specific types of enzyme inducers that create cytoprotective...

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Lac operon

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either allolactose or IPTG, to the repressor affects the distribution of repressor between the two shapes. Thus, repressor with inducer bound is stabilized...

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Enzyme induction and inhibition

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explain enzyme induction, in the context of the lac operon of Escherichia coli. In the absence of lactose, the constitutively expressed lac repressor protein...

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Adaptive enzyme

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turns the gene on). Then there's the repressor protein that turns genes off. The inducer can remove this repressor, turning genes back on. The operator...

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Lambda phage

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replication of the lambda genome (OP). Cro dominates the repressor site (see "Repressor" section), repressing synthesis from the PRM promoter (which is a promoter...

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Jacques Monod

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interactions between a repressor protein, the gene for the enzyme, and the substrate of the enzyme, which interact so that the outcome (enzyme synthesis or not)...

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Regulatory enzyme

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the aconitase is converted to IRPF1, a translation repressor or mRNA stabilizer that represses the formation of iron-binding proteins and favours formation...

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Trp operon

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present, these tryptophan repressor dimers bind to tryptophan, causing a change in the repressor conformation, allowing the repressor to bind to the operator...

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Repressor lexA

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Repressor LexA or LexA (Locus for X-ray sensitivity A) is a transcriptional repressor (EC 3.4.21.88) that represses SOS response genes coding primarily...

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Arginine repressor ArgR

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In molecular biology, the arginine repressor (ArgR) is a repressor of prokaryotic arginine deiminase pathways. The arginine dihydrolase (AD) pathway is...

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Tryptophan repressor

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Tryptophan repressor (or trp repressor) is a transcription factor involved in controlling amino acid metabolism. It has been best studied in Escherichia...

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Fungal extracellular enzyme activity

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such as glucose will inhibit enzyme production by repressing the transcription of associated cellulose-degrading enzymes. Environmental conditions such...

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Regulation of gene expression

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expression of the gene. The image to the right demonstrates regulation by a repressor in the lac operon. General transcription factors position RNA polymerase...

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Amino acid synthesis

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also regulated by feedback inhibition: tryptophan is a co-repressor to the TrpR repressor. The oxaloacetate/aspartate family of amino acids is composed...

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Alkaline phosphatase

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The enzyme alkaline phosphatase (ALP, alkaline phenyl phosphatase) is a phosphatase with the physiological role of dephosphorylating compounds. The enzyme...

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Operon

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the repressor gene (trp R) that binds to the operator. In the lac operon, lactose binds to the repressor protein and prevents it from repressing gene...

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Corepressor

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activating ligand of a repressor protein. For example, the E. coli tryptophan repressor (TrpR) is only able to bind to DNA and repress transcription of the...

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Deubiquitinating enzyme

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Deubiquitinating enzymes (DUBs), also known as deubiquitinating peptidases, deubiquitinating isopeptidases, deubiquitinases, ubiquitin proteases, ubiquitin...

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Fatty acid synthesis

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fabA and fabB transcription and as a repressor for the β-oxidation regulon. In contrast, FabR acts as a repressor for the transcription of fabA and fabB...

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Inducer

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disabling repressors. The gene is expressed because an inducer binds to the repressor. The binding of the inducer to the repressor prevents the repressor from...

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Lysozyme

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systematic name peptidoglycan N-acetylmuramoylhydrolase) is an antimicrobial enzyme produced by animals that forms part of the innate immune system. It is a...

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Staphylococcus aureus

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significant cause of chronic biofilm infections on medical implants, and the repressor of toxins is part of the infection pathway. S. aureus can lay dormant...

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Lytic cycle

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factor that stimulates expression of the main lysogenic repressor gene, cI, whereas Cro is a repressor for cI expression. The lysis-lysogeny decision is mainly...

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