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overexpress

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o·ver·ex·press (vr-k-sprs)
v.
To produce in excess, as does the genetic material of cancer cells.


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They demonstrated that transgenic rice plants that overexpress either of two rice proteins are tolerant to infection caused by the rice tungro bacilliform virus (RTVB), which is largely responsible for the symptoms associated with Rice Tungro disease.
Mice that were engineered to overexpress the gene for SIRT1 were better at repairing DNA, more resistant to cancer and maintained a more youthful pattern of gene expression.
Of the women diagnosed with breast cancer, 25% have tumors that overexpress human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER-2).
 
 
 
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