The phrase "a receptor that" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in scientific or medical contexts to describe a specific type of receptor and its function or characteristics.
Example: "The study focused on a receptor that plays a crucial role in neurotransmission."
Alternatives: "a receptor which" or "a receptor capable of".
A receptor that recognizes unique structures that are present at the surface of microorganisms.
The cholecystokinin (CCK) receptor is known as a receptor that is overexpressed in many human tumors.
Interleukin 13 (IL13) binds a receptor that is highly overexpressed in malignant gliomas, IL13Rα2.
The virus was shown to gain access to the brain through a receptor that can be blocked by several drugs that already have Food and Drug Administration approval, said Dr. Walter J. Atwood, the Brown microbiologist who led the study.
Binding of Sonic Hedgehog (Shh) to Patched (Ptc) relieves the latter's tonic inhibition of Smoothened (Smo), a receptor that spans the cell membrane seven times.
One of the drug's features is that it selectively binds to only one of three receptors for retinoic acid, a receptor that is highly expressed in epithelial cells.
Among their duties, Shank 2 and Shank 3 can reshuffle the subunits of a receptor that dots the receiving end of most nerve cells.
In the third type of mechanism, which is peculiar to steroid hormones and related drugs, the steroid binds to a receptor that consists primarily of nuclear proteins.
The students added three biological parts to the Nissle bacterium: a gene that produces the lactase enzyme, a receptor that recognizes lactose, and a sensor that causes the cell to break open at a certain concentration of lactose.
Although p62 lacks a known ubiquitination domain, it contains the UBA (Ub association) domain and, thus, has been suggested to act as a receptor that delivers ubiquitinated proteins to the proteasome41.
