A protein that plays a regulatory role in a physiological process, metabolic pathway, etc.; (Genetics) a repressor protein (more fully "gene regulatory protein").
Origin
1960s; earliest use found in Journal of Molecular Biology.
Definition of regulatory protein in US English:
regulatory protein
noun
Biochemistry
A protein that plays a regulatory role in a physiological process, metabolic pathway, etc.; (Genetics) a repressor protein (more fully "gene regulatory protein").
Origin
1960s; earliest use found in Journal of Molecular Biology.