Site-directed mutagenesis combined with substrate engineering demonstrates that Trp260 catalyzes the cleavage of the glycosidic bond by promoting the protonation of the purine base at N-7, hence functioning as an alternative to general acid catalysis.
Sotsass's work, while functioning as an alternative to fascism, also expressed a larger sense of responsibility that wasn't necessarily attached to a singular ideology.
In reality it means that vaping is likely functioning as an alternative to smoking, and is partly responsible for the rapid decline in smoking among teenagers since 2010 when e-cigarettes first started becoming popular.
Among snus users, 79.3% said it functioned as an alternative to smoking and 58.4% said it provided a means of coping with smoking restrictions; options not mutually exclusive.
Televised images of regional leaders from across the country protesting side by side have revived the idea of a Third Front, an assortment of state parties that would function as an alternative to the two national parties, the Congress and B.J.P., which lead the United Progressive Alliance and the National Democratic Alliance, respectively.
Meanwhile, "Take It Back," functions as an alternative to "ephemeral" messages, by instead allowing users to take back messages they've sent to remove them from others' devices.
Essentially, the app collates all of your financial activity into a single dashboard, which could function as an alternative to simply checking your account balance.
After reviewing the literature on alveolar ridge augmentation, maxillary sinus augmentation, and/or extraction socket preservation, Freitas et al. reported that ACS with absorbed rhBMP-2 appeared to function as an alternative to autografting in alveolar ridge or maxillary sinus augmentation [20].
Though the Fed report and the FHFA program focused on already-foreclosed properties -- as opposed to short sales, which function as an alternative to foreclosure -- the same argument applies to both, said Newbery of the American Homeowner Preservation.
Here, there was a 'grey zone' between persuasion and manipulation that could be used to make the patient accept treatment and this functioned as an alternative to formal coercion.
On the contrary, one would naively expect that bet hedging strategies function as an alternative to gene regulation, that is, when implementing sensing and regulation would be either too difficult or too costly to evolve (Kussell and Leibler, 2005).
