Sentence examples for acted to inhibit from inspiring English sources

The gene was more active where light stripes formed, where it acted to inhibit  the activity of a protein that causes cells to start to produce pigment.

Downregulation of both these molecules acted to inhibit cellular senescence, through separate pathways.

Thus, the ATN6 polypeptide clearly acted to inhibit the AT activity of the ATC3 polypeptide and to influence the binding of glutamine.

If LET-363 acted to inhibit outgrowth downstream of DAF-18, we reasoned that a loss-of-function mutation in LET-363 would suppress the neurite truncation phenotype in a daf-18 mg198) daf-18 mg198

Active compounds had no effect on production of the NS3-FLAG proteolysis product when added after the proteolysis reaction was complete (data not shown), confirming that they acted to inhibit proteolysis rather than affecting NS3-FLAG detection by western blot.

The expression of Hif-1α in response to PTH did not alter the accumulation or nuclear localization of β-catenin, but rather Hif-1α directly interacted with β-catenin and acted to inhibit the binding of β-catenin to the promoter of target genes.

The authors suggested that ADP might act to inhibit acidification by directly or indirectly inhibiting granular Cl− uptake through the Cl− channel [ 59].

The compounds also act to inhibit the formation of ice or sugar crystals in foods and can be used to encapsulate flavour compounds.

It was later found that splicing factor ESRP1 in epithelial cells acts to inhibit the CD44 isoform switching from an epithelial variant to the mesenchymal variant.

GABAergic ventrolateral preoptic (VLPO) neurons (Brown) act to inhibit the majority of the arousal nuclei, including LH orexinergic neurons to promote sleep.

Differential and temporal-dependent effects of PTH on OC and MGP suggest at the molecular level, that PTH acts to inhibit osteoblast mineralization.