Minerals have diverse functions, including muscle contraction, nerve transmission, blood clotting, immunity, the maintenance of blood pressure, and growth and development.
Outer membrane proteins (OMPs) of Gram-negative bacteria have diverse functions and are directly involved in the interaction with various environments encountered by pathogenic organisms.
Emerin has been shown to have diverse functions, including the regulation of gene expression, cell signaling, nuclear structure and chromatin architecture.
The peptidyl-prolyl isomerase Pin1 is proposed to have diverse functions in many vital aspects of the cell.
The extracellular lysophospholipase D autotaxin (ATX) and its product, lysophosphatidic acid, have diverse functions in development and cancer, but little is known about their functions in the immune system.
The cycles have diverse functions, the primary being thymidylate synthesis (the rate limiting step in DNA synthesis), the initial steps in purine synthesis, glutathione synthesis, and a host of methyl transfer reactions that include DNA and histone methylation.
It has also been shown that Notch ligands have diverse functions during T cell activation.
The corresponding proteins of Th2-induced genes have diverse functions not normally associated with inflammation or host defense.
Together with Cyp19 (also called brain aromatase), Cyp17 belongs to the large superfamily of Cyp genes which have diverse functions in steroid, lipid, and xenobiotic metabolism [21], [22].
In addition, sub-isoforms of PDE4 have been shown to have diverse functions in subcellular pools of cAMP that result from compartmentalization [9].
Serine proteases have diverse functions and play roles in digestion, the immune response, complement activation, cellular differentiation, and hemostasis [13], [14].
