cI protein

English

Noun

cI protein (plural cI proteins)

1. A repressor found in λ phage (a bacteriophage that particularly infects the human digestive bacteria, E. coli) which turns off genetic transcription at the phage's L and R promoters, and thus prevents multiple phages from infecting a single host.

Anagrams

• epornitic, peritonic, proteinic, pterionic