The phrase "acting as specific" is not correct in standard written English.
It seems to be an incomplete expression and lacks clarity in meaning.
Example: "The role of the committee is acting as specific advisors to the board."
Alternatives: "serving as particular" or "functioning as designated".
Recently, a number of receptor-related peptides acting as specific ER ligands have been identified and extensively studied with respect to their estrogenic/antiestrogenic activities.
Primary candidates acting as specific toxins of myocardial tissue are ethanol; its first and major metabolic product, acetaldehyde; and fatty acid ethyl esters.
The classical mode of action of steroid hormones includes their entrance into hormone-dependent cell and binding to their intracellular cognitive receptors, which subsequently dimerize and translocate to the nucleus, acting as specific transcription factors [ 14].
The availability of simple methods to measure the efficiency of these replication steps in tissue culture would facilitate the identification of host factors essential for these processes as well as the screening for lead compounds acting as specific inhibitors of particle formation.
Two major functions have been proposed for pseudokinases, based on the intrinsic protein protein interaction potential of protein kinases: (1) acting as scaffolds, through recruitment of partners or modulators during the protein phosphorylation process; (2) acting as specific competitors of the actual protein kinases.
Collectively, these data suggest that TRIM3 stimulates GKAP degradation by acting as a specific ubiquitin ligase for GKAP.
As discussed above, this could include the possibility that HSF might be acting as a specific transcriptional repressor of certain developmentally regulated genes whose puffs on polytene chromosome regress during heat shock [32].
The isoform of plectin acting as the specific interaction partner of β-dystroglycan in differentiating Schwann cells has still to be identified.
In addition, the Hsp90 Cdc37 chaperone complex was reported to suppress the autophosphorylation of p38, acting as a specific regulator of the p38 pathway.
Vascular endothelial growth factor-A (commonly referred to as VEGF) is the most abundant family member acting as a specific mitogen for endothelial cells in vitro and as an angiogenic molecule in vivo (Ferrara et al, 2003).
These properties will in part be directed by the primary sequence of the SVA to allow for such as interaction with transcription factors and other modulators of genome function acting as sequence specific binding proteins.
