Because the proteins are located at the surface of this organism, where they were postulated to scavenge food including bacteria, the Tectonin proteins have been speculated to function as bacterial sensors.
Although plant PII orthologs were speculated to function as a sensor for both C and N [31], the T-DNA knockout mutants of GLB1 exhibit only weak phenotypes [32].
Such TN-encoding genes have been speculated to function as adapter proteins interacting with TNL proteins or with downstream signaling components [ 17].
Class B Hsfs, except HsfB5, contain the RD in the C-terminus, which is speculated to function as a repressor motif, making HsfB members act as repressors [ 27– 30].
BIX-01294 seems to compensate for the lack of octamer binding transcription factor 4 (overexpressionession and can be speculated to function by facilitating a shift in the epigenetic balance in pluripotent gene activity from a silenced state to an active transcription state for cell reprogramming.
pABTJ2 also encodes many genes that are potentially related to DNA metabolism and replication, which are speculated to improve replication function under stressful conditions.
Efficient absorption of limited organic nutrients, such as amino acids, high activity of phloem sugar hydrolysis, and maintenance of osmotic pressure at an appropriate level are speculated to be the main function of guts [ 2– 4].
In Apicomplexa, several gelsolin domain-containing proteins were found but they are unlikely to be functionally related and are speculated to be Sec23/Sec24-like Sec23/Sec24-likefunction in vesicular transproteinsum et al., 2006).
Mutations in LMNA and EMD that underlie A-EDMD and X-EDMD respectively, are speculated to also perturb satellite cell function, so directly contributing to disease progression [reviewed in 28].
