Recruitment of specific binding proteins to methylated CpG islands is believed to repress target gene transcription [19].
While REST was initially believed to repress transcription of these neuronal genes in neural stem cells (NSCs) and in non-neuronal cells, recent evidence suggests a much broader role for REST, with context-specific and sometimes seemingly paradoxical functions in embryonic stem cells (ESCs), NSCs, mature neurons, and other cell types [3], [5], [6].
IL-10 is generally believed to repress the inflammatory response [ 1] and immune reactions against a variety of tumors [ 2, 3].
PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs synthesized in germ cells, where they are believed to repress the expression of deleterious retrotransposons, thereby ensuring genome integrity during meiosis [ 4].
Since unknown mechanisms are believed to repress a large number of the OLFR genes all the time in most of the cell types, it is likely that these repression mechanisms are mediated through epigenetic modifications.
They don't believe their conscious minds repressed the memories of abduction trauma out of self-protection.
Movies like this tend to believe a villain with repressed homosexual urges is much funnier than one without.
It is about how a family is torn apart when one of its members, a 30-year-old woman, is led by her therapist into believing that she has repressed memories of sexual abuse by her parents.
The work propelled Loftus into the heart of the 1990 "memory wars", when scores of people who had gone into therapy with depression, eating disorders and other common psychological problems, came out believing they had recovered repressed memories for traumatic events, often involving childhood abuse.
For this reason, TE transcription was believed to be severely repressed in plants.
