Autoregulator

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any protein that regulates its own expression

    "LmrR was shown to be a transcriptional repressor of lmrCD expression and an autoregulator of its own expression."

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"LmrR was shown to be a transcriptional repressor of lmrCD expression and an autoregulator of its own expression."

Etymology

From auto- + regulator.

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