Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

autoregulator

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: au-toreg-u-la-tor
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any protein that regulates its own expression

Example Sentences

"LmrR was shown to be a transcriptional repressor of lmrCD expression and an autoregulator of its own expression."

Etymology

From auto- + regulator.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: auto

Inflected Forms

autoregulators (plural)

Questions

What does autoregulator mean?: Any protein that regulates its own expression
Where does autoregulator come from?: From auto- + regulator.

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