Sentence examples for devoid of activity and from inspiring English sources
The dry lake beds and thorny plains where scientists detonated nuclear weapons during the cold war are now, in peacetime, mostly devoid of activity and hundreds of sheds and warehouses that once housed personnel and research facilities are now eerily empty.
Moreover, a Ni-depleted recombinant enzyme and an active site variant that cannot complete the CO oxidation reaction (K563L) are devoid of activity and correspondingly do not exhibit significant CO broadening.
That doesn't mean we're devoid of activity, however, and it certainly doesn't seem to mean that everyone at Epic is getting a break.
The cell migration assays were performed with Naja mocambique venom PLA2 (sPLA2 with high catalytic activity), bothropstoxin-I (sPLA2 devoid of catalytic activity) and platelet-activating factor (PAF), using a 48-well microchemotaxis chamber.
Chemical and enzymatic modifications have led to the synthesis of K5 derivatives with different degrees of sulfation and charge distribution and devoid of anticoagulant activity and cell toxicity.
Lead compounds in this series were found to be devoid of activity at the dopamine transporter and were shown to be brain penetrant with high receptor occupancy.
The molecules are devoid of activity at the GlyT2 isoform and display excellent selectivities against the μ opioid receptor as well as the nociceptin/orphanin FQ peptide (NOP) receptor.
In fact, the ancestral gene may have encoded a pleiotropic hormone, like current CHHs, and after duplication of this gene the type II paralogous lineage may have evolved faster to peptides with a CHH-like structure, but devoid of hyperglycemic activity and conversely exhibiting more specialized activities, such as inhibition of molting or vitellogenesis (for MIHs and VIHs, respectively).
In fact, the production and expression of mutant A175T on the plasma-membrane (PM) was similar to that of the wild-type (wt) receptor and the mutant retained 70% of wt receptor activity; on the contrary, the production of W174C mutant in the cytoplasm was similar to that of the wt receptor and mutant A175T but was only barely detectable on the PM and was devoid of activity.
Some of these proteins bind mono- and oligosaccharides specifically and reversibly but are devoid of catalytic activity and, in contrast to antibodies, are not products of an immune response [ 2].
