autorepress

Etymology

From auto- + repress.

autorepress means to cause or undergo autorepression. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 84 out of 100.

verb

To cause or undergo autorepression.“Since AdpA protein is autorepressing at the transcriptional level (Kato et al., 2005c), translational control mediated by the availability of charged bldA tRNA may determine the level of activation of the AdpA regulon under some conditions.”