regulatory protein
Biochemistry
noun
A protein that plays a regulatory role in a physiological process, metabolic pathway, etc.; (Genetics ) a repressor protein (more fully gene regulatory protein).
Origin
1960s; earliest use found in Journal of Molecular Biology.
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