superrepressor

English

Etymology

super- +‎ repressor

Noun

superrepressor (plural superrepressors)

  1. (genetics) A particularly effective repressor
    • 2015 November 6, “Cardiac-Specific Activation of IKK2 Leads to Defects in Heart Development and Embryonic Lethality”, in PLOS ONE‎, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0141591:
      For this end, we crossed IKK MyHC animals with animals expressing a mutated form of IκBα -(IκBα (S32A, S36A, Y42F) ), which is impervious to phosphorylation-induced degradation and thus acts as a superrepressor of NF-κB signaling[11 ].
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