Sentence examples for functions of members from inspiring English sources

Although the super family of ATP-binding cassette (ABC) proteins plays key roles in the physiology and development of plants, the functions of members of this interesting family mostly remain to be clarified, especially in crop plants.

With the exception of family 1, we know very little about the functions of members of other RF protein families.

It remains to be determined whether the physical and evolutionary link to ZIP transporters will contribute to efforts towards the elucidation of the physiological functions of members of the prion protein family.

The most common known functions of members of these families are "exported proteins" (32 families) and "membrane proteins" (30 families), but also other classical virulence factors emerge as overrepresented in pathogenicity families such as "secretion systems" (16 families) and "fimbrial" and "flagellar" proteins (respectively 11 and 6 families).

These results support the evolutionary labile functions of members of this gene family in pigmentation.

The findings also leave open possible redundant functions of members of the three more conserved pairs (but see also below).

The system originally began as a way of distinguishing the status and function of members of the Silla confederation, a union of the six major tribes of southeastern Korea.

The results begin to reveal the function of members of this pathway, including their possible roles in substrate binding, stimulus perception and signal transduction.

The limited knowledge of the function of members of the large E3 superfamily prompted us to generate genome-wide E3 cDNA and RNAi expression libraries designed for functional screening.

These data are in agreement with the known tumour suppressor function of members of the Runt family of transcription factors.

There was no available documentation to support the selection and functioning of members of the committee that assesses applications.