In some species the spiracles are sunken and protected by a circlet of hydrofuge (water repellent) hairs or by a fine-pored membrane, whereas in other aquatic heteropterans the spiracles are closed and only one or two pairs function in association with either diving air storage chambers or the base of a snorkel-like breathing tube that breaks the surface film of the water.
While KREPA proteins may have no catalytic function, the degenerate RNAse III motifs of KREPB4 and 5 may function in association with the KREN1, 2, or 3 endonucleases.
They function in association with the RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC) to hybridize to 8-mer "seed" sequences in the 3' untranslated regions (3'UTR) of target mRNAs [7].
Additionally, we were able to experimentally validate 7 of the top 10 computationally identified candidate cofactors, suggesting that some other highly-ranked proteins on our list may also function in association with Tup1-Ssn6.
At least three of these gene products function in association with the cellular membranes.
Thus, even in the bacteria, the HNOBA domain always appears to function in association with the HNOB domain.
Moreover, genes encoding different defense systems are often clustered in genomic islands, suggesting that some of them might function in association [ 7, 29].
As CHIP usually functions in association with Hsp90 (Murata et al, 2003), we then assessed whether Hsp90 is involved in the interaction of CHIP with SENP3.
Similar to their prokaryotic counterparts, they may function in association with signal-peptidases to degrade leader peptides removed from precursor proteins similar to their prokaryotic counterparts.
Plastidic mRNA binding proteins often function in association with other proteins; in fact, the rbcL mRNA-based affinity purification of several proteins along with RLSB provides evidence that this protein may function as part of a larger protein complex.
