Repressible Operon At Biology Glossary

What is it? Synthesis of a coordinated group of enzymes, involved in a single synthetic (anabolic) pathway, is repressible if excess quantities of (usually) the end product of the pathway leads to cessation of transcription of the genes encoding the enzymes of the pathway.

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