Sentence examples for passive repression from inspiring English sources

Its transcriptional activity, if any, would be limited to the "CAATT-displacement activity", a mechanism of passive repression involving competition for binding site occupancy [ 18].

HaHSFA4a showed in planta nuclear interaction with HaHSFA9; a synergistic transcriptional activation was observed on sunflower seed sHSP promoters, as Hahsp17.6 G1, when HaHSFA4a was assayed together with HaHSFA9; and, finally, the interaction of both HaHSFA9 and HaHSFA4a with HaIAA27 lead to passive repression of the synergism between HaHSFA9 and HaHSFA4a [ 14, 15].

Passive coping includes repression, behavioural disengagement, substance abuse and self-blame.

3. Repression and passive aggressiveness.

The inhibitory role of soluble recombinant BAT3 observed in our experiments might be due to a passive blocking or an active repression of NKp30-mediated signalling.

The genome is not a passive blueprint: the selective activation or repression of genes allows an individual cell to acquire its identity and to perform its function.

Repression of genes upon HDAC inhibition can be the result of indirect actions of repressors that are activated and cause repression in an HDAC passive fashion, or repression could be brought about by active recruitment of HDACs to promoters of selected genes [17].

Passive aggression or passiveness.

In the midst of the unfolding crisis in Iran, a country possibly on the brink of a horrible civil war, President Obama is being attacked for being too "timid and passive" in not speaking out against Tehran's forceful repression of opposition protests.

As shown in Figure 1B, the most frequent (≥50%) immature mechanisms were: fantasy (100%), withdrawal (90%), repression (90%), projection (70%), dissociation (70%), passive aggression (50%), conversion (50%), and undoing (50%).

In fact, recent studies showed that DNA methylation might be a passive reflection of transcription factor binding or a consequence of gene repression [ 43, 44].