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"Now communication tools have evolved to function better than email".
Antibodies have evolved to function in oxidative, extracellular environments.
This expression pattern suggests that within Brassicaceae, MIRO3 orthologs may have evolved to function mainly in endosperm development.
On the other hand, some of enzymes have evolved to function in catalytically perfect regime, i.e. when the catalytic rate is much faster than substrate dissociation [23], [24].
Within an evolutionary context, leptin may have evolved to function as a signal of energy supply to the hypothalamic-pituitary axis to regulate the release of reproductive hormones [17], since it is critical for organisms to coordinate reproduction with periods of nutrient sufficiency.
Given this evolutionary history, and the fact that no evidence exists for an essential, embryonic function for any mammalian methyl-CpG binding protein, we propose that the mammalian Mecps have evolved to function predominantly or exclusively to fine tune gene expression in postmitotic tissues.
Therefore, it has become evident that it is incorrect to interpret the behaviour of animals as having evolved to function "for the good of the species".
We used this new tracer protein mutant to determine the association behavior of aFGF with heparin in the presence of high concentrations of albumin that mimicked more closely the plasma medium in which aFGF is naturally located and in which it has evolved to function.
Based on these findings, we postulate that the high ATPase activity of RecANg has evolved to function with RecXNg control to facilitate antigenic variation and DNA transformation.
Together, these data suggest that in these operons, a different small protein has evolved to function in the CydAB complex.
Thus, this family of GNAT fold enzymes has evolved to function in conjunction with tRNAs, and regular or specific paralogous AAtRSs, charging the cognate amino acids in synthesis of amino acid derived antibiotics or in modifying lipids and proteins.
