Sentence examples for deficient in ability from inspiring English sources

Third, cell biology studies found that several of the TLR6 variants were deficient in ability to mediate signal transduction.

This high degree of conservation was further confirmed by experiments showing that E4orf4 mutants selected in yeast for loss of their ability to induce toxicity, were also deficient in their ability to induce cell death in mammalian cells [23].

The transformed MSCs approached tetraploidy, and were deficient in the ability to differentiate into adipocytes, yet had increased ability to become osteocytic.

These mutants were also deficient in their ability to stop DNA synthesis in NCI-H1299 cells [46], suggesting a link between competency to bind microtubules and ability to induce cell cycle arrest.

Such persons tend to show a great concern for efficiency, are overly devoted to work and productivity, and are usually deficient in the ability to express warm or tender emotions.

"We might find that people with PTSD are deficient in their ability to recruit this network," he hypothesizes.

High fluorescence levels were obtained in a glycerol 3-phosphate dehydrogenase double deletion strain (gpd1Δgpd2Δ), which is deficient in the ability to regenerate NAD+ via glycerol formation.

Current buildings' performance assessment tools are deficient in their ability to integrate and process building monitoring data to generate actionable information that can assist in achieving a higher level of building performance.

Despite normal postsynaptic mechanisms, these mice are deficient in their ability to produce LTP and are therefore a suitable model for studying the relation between LTP and learning processes.

We previously isolated from a Caenorhabditis elegans cDNA library, designed for two-hybrid screening, a gene encoding the DNA repair enzyme APN-1 using cross-specie complementation analysis of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae apn1∆ apn2∆ tripletriple mutant deficient in the ability to repair several types of DNA lesions including apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) sites.

He was by no means deficient in inventive ability".