cI protein (English, noun)
expansion: cI protein (plural cI proteins)
Senses:
glosses: 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.
Forms:
form: cI proteins
tags: plural