Similarly, several blue green algae help to sequester salt from water.
Besides assuming a cell adhesive and structural support role, the ECM also helps to sequester and present growth factors to cells.
Buying organic supports organic agriculture, which helps to sequester carbon in the soil, conserves water, and keeps toxic pesticides, insecticides, and herbicides (like Roundup) out of our soil and waterways.
This indicates that high levels of expression of these TG storage-promoting proteins might help to sequester lipids in the adipose tissue and to protect against insulin resistance.
αvβ3-integrins are known to immobilise in static FAs (Zamir et al., 2000) and it seems that they help to sequester NRP1 at these sites, even after VEGF-stimulation, which prevents it from activating PXN.
Above the brush border, a layer of mucus protects the host from intestinal microbes; in the Drosophila gut, there is also a chitin layer – the peritrophic matrix – that helps to sequester microbes from coming in contact with the midgut and hindgut (Gooday, 1999; Vodovar et al., 2005).
"The private sector has been healing and that's helping to offset the adverse effects of the sequester.
In this way, trigger loop closing helps to frame and sequester the active site.
In addition, the grassland species sequester more carbon than they produce, helping to fight global climate change.
Not only could the resulting products sequester carbon, but they also may reduce the need to extract fossil fuels -- both helping to slow climate change.
