The phrase "repressive function" is grammatically correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe when a particular rule, law, policy, or process is limiting or restrictive to a particular group or person. For example, "The discriminatory tax policies had a repressive function for low-income families in the area."
The repressive function of MeCP2 in cardiomyocytes was functionally relevant because MeCP2-TG mice showed aggravated cardiac hypertrophy and dysfunction after pressure overload.
Such repressive sequence could function by recruiting specific repressing factors [36], but the exact mechanism accounting for this repressive function of this sequence even in the absence of methylation would require further investigation.
As this modification is mostly found in transcriptionally inactive or repressed regions [8], [9], HP1a is mostly considered to have a repressive function.
Tio can also repress cut when ectopically expressed in PCs (Fig. 6E), indicating an ancestral repressive function for Tio/Tsh.
JMJ13′s repressive function prevents precocious flowering under unfavorable environmental conditions.
Interestingly, SUMOylation of G9a is required for its ability to transcriptionally activate genes, but not for its repressive function.
In agreement with its repressive function, the genomic binding sites of Myt1l are similar in neurons and fibroblasts and are preferentially in an open chromatin configuration.
The repressive function of Myt1l is mediated via recruitment of a complex containing Sin3b by binding to a previously uncharacterized N-terminal domain.
Choi, H. K. et al. Protein kinase A phosphorylates NCoR to enhance its nuclear translocation and repressive function in human prostate cancer cells.
This is the first evidence for an inherent repressive function for the Q domain alone.
The effect of AtERF11 on promoting GA biosynthesis gene expression is likely via its repressive function on ethylene biosynthesis.
