The phrase "confer ability" is not correct or usable in written English.
It is likely intended to mean "confer a sense of ability," which is a more natural phrase to use. For example, "Joining a team sport helped him to confer a sense of ability to himself".
The enhanced use by HSV-2/gD-Q27P of nectin-2 as an entry receptor (Fig. 2) is also of virologic interest; wild-type HSV-2 but not HSV-1 can use human nectin-2 as an entry receptor [63], and mutations in the N-terminal domain of HSV-1 can confer ability to use nectin-2 for entry [15], [16], [64], [65].
GRFs are abundant proteins, a property that may confer ability to outcompete nucleosomes.
Monitoring the genetic structure of this virus is needed for predicting changes that may confer ability to cause pandemics: pathogenicity, host range, and antigenic drift.
Early stages of epithelial cancer progression are universally characterized with genetic changes that confer ability to survive and proliferate in the absence of an appropriate matrix anchorage, which allows cellular expansion in a geometrically unconstrained manner.
Since BR interacts with other plant hormones, it is likely that the stress tolerance conferring ability of BR lies in part in its interactions with other stress hormones.
The loss of cell contacts and necrosis observed in treated tumors supports our model of PVRL4-driven cell-to-cell attachments conferring ability to sustain growth in conditions of matrix anchorage loss.
The thrifty gene is said to confer the ability to store fat at times of food abundance and allow reutilization during food crunch.
This observed genetic variance presumably resulted in a gene cluster that does not confer the ability to produce carbamoylated saxitoxin derivatives.
So far, no factors have been identified that confer the ability of lentiviruses to infect non-dividing cells onto gammaretroviral vectors [16].
The conformational change in ALG-2 may confer its ability to discriminate between Sec31 subunit isoforms.
Phenolic compounds are also very important plant constituents because their hydroxyl groups confer scavenging ability [ 44].
