Sentence examples for a non-functional version from inspiring English sources

Expression of a non-functional version of the oligomeric Tat protein of HIV drastically reduces viral yield (Meredith et al., 2009).

However, when tethered to an adjacent C2 domain, C2A is able to bind SNAREs [ 48], whereas tethering C2B to C2A, even a non-functional version which fails to bind lipid or calcium, enables C2B binding and penetration of membranes.

The observations that WUS physically interacts with the Gro/Tup1 co-repressor TOPLESS (TPL) and that fusing TPL to a non functional version of WUS protein partially rescues WUS function suggest that WUS is part of a repressor complex involving TPL.

Knockouts work by mating males and females that each have one functional and one non-functional version of the gene under investigation (each having been derived from a different parent).

Overall the HEG sequences showed extremely good alignment allowing un-ambiguous translation for all but the non-functional version in Megalactis sp. The protein motifs which place this HEG in the LAGLIDADG family [9] may be readily identified.

Highly deleterious traits may be eliminated even more quickly, with non-functional versions appearing in large numbers even before the drive and its cargo can spread to all members of the population.

The gene has had an unusual evolutionary history, with disruption of the open reading frame generating a non-functional pseudogene in Old and New World monkeys and apparent restoration of a truncated version in humans and African great apes (5).

In the first experiment, which involved red juice and skinny tubes of plastic, Dokana showed that she could distinguish a functional drinking straw from a non-functional one.

A non-functional lighthouse, shipwrecked fishing boat, and the bunker (a site built to test-launch missiles during the Cold War's Operation Condor), are the main landmark attractions.

The strains carried a non-functional truncated allele of mei4 that rescues lethality caused by the deletion of mmi118.

The Xoom takes a lot of flack for featuring a non-functional microSD card slot.