trans·ac·ti·vate 
(trăns-ăktə-vāt′, trănz-)
(trăns-ăktə-vāt′, trănz-)tr.v. trans·ac·ti·vat·ed, trans·ac·ti·vat·ing, trans·ac·ti·vates
To stimulate the transcription of (a gene in a host cell) by binding to DNA. Genes can be transactivated naturally by a virus or cellular protein or artificially by the insertion of a transactivator gene and segment of DNA into a cell.
trans′ac·ti·vation n.
trans·acti·va′tor n.
- middle class
- middle-class
- middle distance
- Middle Dutch
- middle ear
- Middle East
- Middle Eastern
- Middle Easterner
- Middle English
- Middle French
- middle ground
- middle guard
- Middle High German
- middle-income
- Middle Iranian
- Middle Irish
- Middle Korean
- Middle Low German
- middleman
- middle management
- middle manager
- middlemost
- middle name
- middle-of-the-road
- middle-of-the-roader