An electrical prosthetic device appears to offer hope in replacing the function of degenerating or dead photoreceptor neurons.
However, for the cholera agent Vibrio cholerae, biofilm formation is dependent on biosynthesis of the unusual shorter structural analog of spermidine, norspermidine, and spermidine cannot replace the function of norspermidine in biofilm formation in this species (Lee et al., 2009).
A previous report has revealed that a complete LRR receptor kinase-like protein including both the LRR and kinase domains in the Xa3/Xa26 family is important for conferring disease resistance; the kinase domain of a paralog in this family can partially replace the function of the kinase domain of resistance protein Xa3/Xa26 in response to Xoo [ 13].
The pumps replace the function of your heart; the oxygenater replaces the function of your lungs.
Our concierges replace the function of traditional agents--in fact, they are all licensed.
The leading contemporary living scaffolds for neurorepair are utilizing aligned glial cells and neuronal/axonal tracts to direct regenerating axons across damaged tissue to appropriate targets, and in some cases to directly replace the function of lost cells.
BIG1 is required to maintain the normal morphology of the Golgi; BIG2 is important for endosomal compartment integrity and cannot replace the function of BIG1 in Golgi organization.
But, despite its relatively high sequence similarity, Map3k1 cannot replace the function of Ste11 in yeast.
Therefore, we can conclude that photosynthetic eukaryotes encountered strong selective pressure to replace the function of GULO in ascorbate biosynthesis.
Rice COPT7 but not rice COPT2, COPT3, COPT4, or COPT6 could replace the function of ScCtr1 in yeast cells.
The age-old problem with pharmaceutical treatments is that no drug can replace the function of a nutrient, in this instance niacin (vitamin B3).
