The phrase "are capable of repressing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the ability of someone or something to suppress or control emotions, thoughts, or actions.
Example: "Certain techniques are capable of repressing negative thoughts during stressful situations."
Alternatives: "have the ability to suppress" or "are able to control".
Because methylated DNA binding proteins or activities are capable of repressing reporter genes by recruiting histone deacetylase activity, the loss of HDAC due to loss of mp66α should result in a DNA methyltransferase knockout phenotype.
However, both Hes-1 [13][14] and Neurog3 itself [15] are capable of repressing Neurog3 expression in endocrine progenitors and it has been proposed that induction by Neurog3 of a putative downstream repressor may participate in this negative autoregulatory loop [15].
Research using breast cancer cell lines suggests that dietary phyto-oestrogens are capable of repressing EGF receptor activity.
Both EZH2α and EZH2β are capable of repressing FOXP3 expression in vitro, in a manner that is increased by transfection with obligate co-factors SUZ12 and EED.
- PIWI-class proteins, such as PIWIL2 and PIWIL4, are also involved in a so-denominated "ping-pong" amplification cycle, creating antisense piRNAs that are capable of repressing the transcript of origin.
However, since miRNAs are capable of repressing over a hundred different mRNAs [ 28], miR-143 could also target mRNAs which may be relevant in response to capecitabine, oxaliplatin and bevacizumab.
Even so, these results and the fact that increasing amounts of Tbx3 causes a gradual decrease in the promoter activity of PTEN imply that Tbx3 is capable of repressing PTEN and that this repression is specific.
To ensure that H3K27 trimethylation is limited only to the repressed target, PRC2 is capable of repressing its own enzymatic activity.
Myc is capable of repressing its own gene, and this auto-repression is disrupted in all cancer cell lines tested [14], [15].
Among these compounds, only gastrodin was capable of repressing transplanted H22 ascitic hepatic tumor cell growth in vivo with low toxicity.
Similarly, the GTG3A GR mutant, which contains three mutations within the DBD, preferentially recognizes a thyroid hormone response element rather than GREs, yet is capable of repressing NF-κB-driven transcription27.
