overexpressedadj.
/ˌəʊv(ə)rᵻkˈsprɛst/, /ˌəʊv(ə)rɛkˈsprɛst/, U.S. /ˈˌoʊvərɪkˈsprɛst/, /ˈˌoʊvərɛkˈsprɛst/ 1. Expressed in an excessive or exaggerated way.
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1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 17 I am not suited for this sort of confrontation despite..a bloody season of overexpressed personal opinions as a newspaper columnist.
1970 Harvard Stud. Classical Philol. 74 13 We note his clumsy and overexpressed Latin.
2. Genetics. Of a gene product: produced in abnormally large amounts.
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1983 Gene 26 109 A simple procedure for purification of the overexpressed protein has been developed.
1998 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 95 2773/1 Most of the overexpressed DsbA or DsbC is found in the reduced form.
2002 Diabetes (Nexis) 51 2045 The amounts of overexpressed proteins were not significantly changed by 72 h after infection.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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