feedback inhibition
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- The process by which the accumulated end product of a biochemical pathway stops synthesis of that product. The effect is that a late metabolite of a synthetic pathway regulates the synthesis of an earlier step of the pathway. See: end-product inhibition.
UN Food and Agriculture Organization - Cite This Source - This Definition - amber stop codon, dendrimer, nonsense mutation, ochre stop codon, opal stop codon, Open reading frame, Stop codon, Termination codon, terminator codon, translational stop signal