autoregulator

English

Etymology

auto- +‎ regulator

Noun

autoregulator (plural autoregulators)

1. (genetics, biochemistry) Any protein that regulates its own expression
   • 2015 August 13, “Binding of the Lactococcal Drug Dependent Transcriptional Regulator LmrR to Its Ligands and Responsive Promoter Regions”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     LmrR was shown to be a transcriptional repressor of lmrCD expression and an autoregulator of its own expression.