Sentence examples for presumed to act from inspiring English sources

In testing human vaginal secretions, scientists have identified fatty acids identical to several that are presumed to act as sex pheromones in other primates.

The affinities presumed to act between chemical 'atoms' were postulated solely on the basis of the observed chemical behaviour of bulk substances manipulated in the laboratory.

An optimum XeF2 dose time of 120 s (PXeF2= 1torr, PN2 = 35 torr) was found to form C F bonds on 6 7% of the graphene surface, which are presumed to act as additional ALD reaction sites facilitating conformal Al2O3 films only 15 nm thick.

It is also puzzling that the Lsp proteins did not exhibit an additive effect in regulating antibiotic production given that Ax21-family proteins are presumed to act as quorum molecules; indeed, relative virulence among strains of S. maltophilia was correlated with the amounts of Ax21 protein produced (Ferrer-Navarro et al. 2013).

It has an extra N-terminal segment found only in the inactive form of the Cry toxins and, hence, it is presumed to act through another mechanism as an activator in the apoptotic signaling pathway rather than a pore-forming toxin.

The dirigent protein was presumed to act as a template for lignin polymerization [ 31].

We do not presume to act or speak for all the victims, our expectations are low, and our "upset" is already evident.

The fibrocytes also expressed mRNA for sST2, another product of ST2 gene as a result of alternative splicing, which is presumed to acts as a decoy receptor to prevent IL-33 binding to and signaling through sT2L [ 14].

The process of dehydration is accompanied by a concomitant increase in the levels of the carbohydrate trehalose, which is presumed to also act as a cryoprotectant in this organism.

In such cases, parents are presumed to have acted in the best interests of their children [ 42].

But this was all presumed to be an act — the exóticos always maintained that they were straight in real life.