Sentence examples for function as a host from inspiring English sources

gambiæ SG indicated a possible antimicrobial function rather than a function as a host serine protease inhibitor during blood feeding.

Consistent with its function as a host defense agent, iNOS can protect certain host tissues from certain infectious diseases.

Thus, intelectin-1 may be induced in mesothelial cells by an inflammatory stimulation, such as Th2 cytokine, and function as a host defence protein in relation to a respiratory inflammation.

It seemed to Nina that Pavlik's functions as a host were limited to calling out that phrase.

In the live mobile streaming world of the near future the newscaster functions as a host while his guests, the "I witnesses" and the community, create the news in real-time.

Callose, a substrate of beta-1, 3 glucanase enzymes [20], deposits at the point of attempted penetration of the pathogen [21], [22] and functions as a host resistance factor.

Previous studies have demonstrated that the RXLR motif is necessary and sufficient for delivery of proteins into plant cells [12], [13], and it is now widely accepted that the RXLR motif functions as a host targeting signal.

In addition, we showed that the expression of feline Tetherin/BST-2 was induced by type I IFN similar to human Tetherin/BST-2 (Figure 2), suggesting that Tetherin/BST-2 functions as a host innate antiviral system against a wide variety of viruses.

These results suggest that IREF-2 functions as a host factor for vRNA synthesis from cRNA in infected cells.

Thus, it is conceivable that the Apaf-1 functions as a host defense factor against invasion by intracellular pathogens as an inhibitor or sensor as well as a pro-apoptotic agent.

In contrast to the former assumption that pyroptosis may be a pro-microbial mechanism employed by bacteria to destroy host phagocytes via induction of suicide in host cells, current data suggest, that pyroptosis rather functions as a host defense mechanism used to clear intracellular pathogens (Miao et al, 2010a).