Although natural human AMPs may be too long or complex for chemical synthesis, the entire AMP might not be required because the antimicrobial activity resolves to a smaller essential motif.
Taken together, this means that TKT1 and TALA form a small but essential pathway in the genotypes belonging to component A', while G6PDH, PGL and GND form another essential pathway in genotypes belonging to component B'.
That is where a small but essential role comes in for force.
"Virginia worried and worried that she might have clamped a small but essential artery," L. Stanley James, a colleague of hers, later recalled.
Air commanders will rely on a small but essential fleet of surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft, including the radar-jamming EC-130H Compass Call and electronic-eavesdropping RC-135 Rivet Joint.
Ah, humanity… QUESTION FROM TOD F.: Wertheimer is exactly the kind of everyday hero, doing a small but essential task, that I read The New Yorker for.
Night-vision goggles have become a small but essential piece of America's advantage over its enemies, just as their design, with an array of closely guarded technology packed inside, has become part of the iconography of the modern American warrior.
Ratification of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol "represents a small but essential first step" to halt the buildup of greenhouse gases.
As crop cultivation moves into drier areas, it typically exploits key resource patches that are vital to pastoral production, removing a small but essential component from the bigger pastoral system.
Of those, books on writing can play a small, but essential, role.
