Medical Definition of Inactive repressor
1. A repressor that cannot combine with an operator gene until it has combined with a corepressor (usually a product of a protein pathway); after activation, the repressor arrests production of the proteins controlled by the operator gene; a homeostatic mechanism for regulation of repressible enzyme systems. Synonym: aporepressor. (05 Mar 2000)
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