Sentence examples for are competent to bind from inspiring English sources

Conformational states that are competent to bind immune-stimulating FcγRs interconverted with Fc conformations distinct from those observed in FcγR complexes, which may represent a transient, nonbinding population.

Helices in Pik1(121-174) connected by an unstructured loop are colored magenta and the four EF-hands (EF1, EF2, EF3 and EF4) in Frq1 are highlighted in green, salmon, cyan, and yellow, respectively, but only EF2, EF3 and EF4 are competent to bind a calcium ion (orange sphere).

Their binding is best described by conformational selection in which the structural ensemble is thought to include conformations that are competent to bind ligand.

Following the covalent incorporation of complementary rNTP and the forward translocation, complexes attain a state in which they are competent to bind the next incoming dNTP.

These results were surprising as extensive evidence has shown that constitutively trimerized mammalian HSF1 mutants are competent to bind DNA in vitro using gel shift analysis (Rabindran et al. 1993; Zuo et al. 1994, 1995; Farkas et al. 1998).

Shi, F., Telesco, S. E., Liu, Y., Radhakrishnan, R. & Lemmon, M. A. ErbB3/HER3 intracellular domain is competent to bind ATP and catalyze autophosphorylation.

The openings are found in the active conformation, in which opsin is competent to bind and activate the G protein transducin.

Thus deletion of this region, as found in BDB mutants, yields a receptor which is competent to bind Wnt ligand but unable to produce a productive tyrosine phosphorylation signalling response.

While we found that there are substantial amounts of kermit2 in Xenopus embryos our GST pull downs and coimmunoprecipitations suggest that only a small fraction of kermit2 in the embryo is competent to bind to endogenous α5β1 integrin.

While all Skp1 isoforms were competent to bind Fbs1, glycosylated glycoforms bound preferentially.

Overall, our comparative analysis supports the prediction that the RGG box of Sho is competent to bind RNA.