EBP1 appears to fulfill multiple diverse biological functions.
These allergens have been classified as having multiple diverse putative functions, including activity in hydrolysis and breakdown of local tissues, transport, and regulatory heat-shock proteins [16].
Centrin is thus a versatile molecule that has been adapted to perform multiple diverse cellular functions.
Despite its multiple and diverse functions, PIF1 is not an essential gene.
This is especially suspicious for large phylogenomic datasets that are from the concatenation of multiple genes of diverse functions with different functional constraints.
With the combination of staged processing flow, the whole system can work at multiple modes with diverse functions and switch to a more suitable mode quickly according to the change of application requirements.
This is reasonable because IDRs are known to interact with multiple partners with diverse functions (Uversky, 2013).
It may thus be expected that functional 'radiation' within this group has led to the maintenance of multiple copies with diverse functions in other species, also.
Adipose tissues produce multiple adipokines with diverse functions including modulation of inflammation, thrombogenicity, insulin resistance, and other metabolic effects (4, 5).
To support that claim, the scientific literature is extensively reviewed, highlighting the multiple interactions and diverse functions realized by this type of molecules (polyphosphates, polyhydroxybutyrate, polyamines, lipids and calcium, in particular) in extant cells (e.g., E. coli).
