The phrase "adhesive site" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to biology, chemistry, or materials science, referring to a location where adhesion occurs.
Example: "The adhesive site on the protein allows it to bind effectively to the target molecule."
Alternatives: "binding site" or "attachment point".
The injured ligaments were transected at their tibial attachment, femoral attachment or adhesive site of the ruptured end, and these tibial stumps removed en bloc arthroscopically.
Another cell adhesive site is located within the carboxyl-terminal 31 residues of IIICS and it is referred to as CS5.
The complex either proceeds to mature focal adhesions that are 1 5 μm in size and contain vinculin and zyxin if the integrin ECM connection can provide sufficient resistance to the cytoskeleton-generated tension, or alternatively the adhesion complex can dissociate at any step and allow the filopodia to search for another adhesive site [ 4, 18].
Embryonic Xenopus cells do not form clearly defined structures such as focal adhesions making description of adhesive sites difficult.
Most integrins initiate transmembrane signaling by activating focal adhesion kinase (FAK) and Src family kinases at adhesive sites.
This adaptation includes reorganization of costameric structures, resulting in adhesive sites that are structurally similar to focal adhesions (FA), which are typically found in non-muscle cells (Decker et al., 1990).
As the expression level of integrins on HCC cells and in the extracellular matrix is related closely to a cell's ability to migrate [ 26, 27], attempts to realize "anti-adhesion therapy" have been undertaken using synthetic integrin-binding peptides derived from cell adhesive sites of ECM protein.
One reason is that a relatively small number of highly adhesive sites, or the heterogeneity of the coated surface, may control the overall response of the system to initial bacterial deposition.
Furthermore, the role of collagen protein component in the hybrid hydrogels provides adhesive sites to cells, stimulating anchorage and spreading significantly with respect to mulberry silk fibroin gel, which lacks cell adhesion motifs.
As embryonic cells make poorly defined adhesive sites on FN substrates we asked if cultured Xenopus cells would exhibit similar interactions.
In all 20 cases with well differentiated adenocarcinomas, α-catenin and IQGAP1 disappeared from the cell adhesive sites, but other cytoplasmic molecules were co-localized with E-cadherin along the cell boundaries.
