enzyme repression
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enzyme repression
[′en‚zīm ri′presh·ən] (biochemistry)
The process by which the rate of synthesis of an enzyme is reduced in the presence of a metabolite, often the end product of a chain of reactions in which the enzyme in question operates near the beginning.
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