Sentence examples similar to functioning as a failsafe from inspiring English sources

The tumor suppressor p14ARF is widely deregulated in many types of cancers and is believed to function as a failsafe mechanism, inhibiting proliferation and inducing apoptosis as cellular response to a high oncogene load.

The inability of SlmA alone to affect FtsZ polymer assembly could also function as a failsafe measure to prevent unwanted perturbation of cytosolic FtsZ polymers where Z-ring assembly is desired.

It has been hypothesized that the permissiveness of spliceosomes to recognize introns with weak splicing site opens the door for intron gain, and that NMD functions as a failsafe mechanism for weak splicing of new introns, especially in 3 n introns (Jaillon et al. 2008; Farlow et al. 2010).

Thus he functions as a satirist.

The network functions as a time bank.

It briefly functioned as a jail.

"We function as a nonprofit.

It likely functions as a contact call.

These fees function as a deterrent.

This could also function as a bypass.

It functions as a toner or astringent.