Although the rats may be functioning primarily as seed predators, they also provide a potentially important backup dispersal system for some species particularly those with multi-seeded diaspores or with seeds that can germinate after partial damage (Pérez et al. 2008).
There's also Holly Hill, on Holly Hill Lane, though owing to slow sales, brokers say, it is now functioning primarily as a rental.
This enzyme has long been viewed as functioning primarily as a bactericidal agent (7), generating reactive oxygen species that contribute to the destruction and killing of the engulfed pathogens (6).
First, it has been suggested that CFTR, although functioning primarily as a chloride and bicarbonate channel [122], can also enable transmembrane flux of the redox intermediates glutathione (GSH) and thiocyanate [123 125].
The one oddity is Roberts, who does not have much to do here, functioning primarily as an ocular bon-bon.
Functioning primarily as a fishing community, the laid-back settlement is flanked by long stretches of palm-fringed coast.
EWS-FLI1 is believed to function primarily as an aberrant transcription factor.
While Snail-1 is thought to function primarily as a transcriptional repressor, we did observe Snail-1 binding to a subset of upregulated gene promoters, raising the possibility that these promoters may be directly transcriptionally activated by Snail-1.
While the urothelium is thought to function primarily as a barrier for preventing injurious substances and microorganisms from gaining access to bladder stroma and upper urinary tract, studies indicate it may also function in cell signaling events relating to voiding function.
LMB is thought to function primarily as an inhibitor of the export of proteins from the nucleus to the cytoplasm because of its ability to interact with and impair the function of the nuclear export factor crm-1 (Kudo et al, 1999).
