Sentence examples for an analogous function from inspiring English sources

Androgens regulate male sexual characteristics, and estrogens perform an analogous function in females.

The well conserved structure and properties suggests an analogous function of CpC8α to mammalian C8α, though it remains to be confirmed by further study.

In an era when the misguided and the malevolent still proffer the idea that his works were a put-up job by secret aristos such as the Earl of Oxford, seeing the records of his birth, marriage and death in the chancel of this beautiful church serves an analogous function to those "material evidence of crimes" at Auschwitz, giving the lie to revisionists and conspiracy theorists.

RA3 serves the purpose of converting trehalose-6-phosphate into trehalose, an analogous function to that of Tps2 in fungi.

This deacetylase may have an analogous function to the deformylase that generates undecaprenyl phosphate-4-amino-4-deoxy-alpha-l-arabinose from undecaprenyl phosphate-4-deoxy-4-formylamino-alpha-l-arabinose in polymyxin-resistant strains of E. coli and Salmonella typhimurium.

Instead, they might exert an analogous function as a channel molecule at the parasite or PV membrane.

Just as the exponential naturally arises out of the solution to integer order differential equations, the Mittag-Leffler function plays an analogous role in the solution of non-integer order differential equations.

Calcineurin has been demonstrated to be required for azole tolerance and/or resistance in the ascomycetous yeast pathogens C. albicans, C. dubliniensis, C. glabrata, and C. lusitaniae (Chen et al. 2011, 2012; Sanglard et al. 2003; Zhang et al. 2012a, b), but whether calcineurin functions in an analogous role in the basidiomycetous yeasts C. neoformans and C. gattii has been less clear.

Thus the hypothetical functions of the bis-SH3 and PX domains indicate the analogous function as a "membrane-binding/cytochrome docking region" of Nox organizer.

Position of the electron density in Ire1 predicts an analogous catalytic function for N1057.

Perhaps the extremely low number of TCS proteins in Wolbachia endosymbionts reduces the requirement for an analogous insulatory function in the CckA hybrid HK.