Medical Definition of Catabolite repression

1. Inducible enzyme systems in some microorganisms (such as the lac operon) that are repressed when a more favoured carbon source, such as glucose, is available. Repression in E. Coli is partially relieved if cAMP is bound to the cAMP catabolite activator protein (cAMP receptor protein, CRP) that binds to DNA upstream of the repressed operon concerned. Catabolite repression (of the respiratory system) is seen in yeast in high glucose concentrations, though the mechanism is different. (16 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Catabolite Repression

catabolic
catabolic
catabolically
catabolic pathway
catabolin
catabolise
catabolism
catabolism
catabolisms
catabolite
catabolite
catabolites
catabolite (gene) activator protein
catabolite gene activator
catabolite gene activator protein
catabolite repression (current term)
catabolize
catabolized
catabolizes
catabolizing
Catacala
catachreses
catachresis
catachrestic
catachrestical
catachronobiology
cataclinal
cataclysm
cataclysmal
cataclysmic

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