Definition of "repressors" []

• Plural form of repressor. (noun)

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• "Furthermore, RNA often controls the expression of genes, another role that had been thought to be at least mostly the domain of proteins called "repressors" and "transcription factors.""
• "Other regulatory proteins (such as repressors) influence transcription by binding to a region near to or overlapping the promoter, called the operator."
• "Who can forget how in 2004 he triggered a firestorm describing Arabs as "suicide bombers, limb-amputators, women repressors"?"