REPRESSIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does repressive mean? 

• REPRESSIVE (adjective)
  The adjective REPRESSIVE has 1 sense:

1. restrictive of action

  Familiarity information: REPRESSIVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPRESSIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Restrictive of action

Synonyms:

inhibitory; repressing; repressive

Context example:

an overly strict and inhibitory discipline

Similar:

restrictive (serving to restrict)

Derivation:

repress (put down by force or intimidation)

 Context examples 

Steroid receptors are a class of transcription factors that can interact with the repressive chromatin structure and remodel the chromatin to allow other transcription factors to bind.

(hSWI-SNF Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Brm can counteract the repressive effect of polycomb protein and exhibits DNA-dependent ATPase activity.

(BRAHMA, NCI Thesaurus)

The EED-EZH2 complex (PRC 2 complex) acts early in development to set the stage for the long term repressive PRC1 complex.

(Gene Silencing Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Hypermethylation appears to be a controlled, epigenetic, heritable, and aberrant DNA methylation reaction on gene promoter regions and CpG islands associated with loss of (e.g., tumor-suppressor) gene function in diverse cellular pathways through transcriptional silencing by the formation of transcriptionally repressive chromatin.

(Hypermethylation, NCI Thesaurus)

To counterbalance the repressive nature of chromatin, a variety of chromatin remodeling factors use the energy of ATP hydrolysis to facilitate the interaction of proteins with nucleosomal DNA.

(hSWI-SNF Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)