Sentence examples for retained its function from inspiring English sources

If the truncated protein is retained, its function is likely to be severely compromised as it lacks essential domains for enzymatic activity [ 16, 17].

The glucose biosensor retained its function in complex solutions that contained realistic concentrations of protein and potential interfering agents found in blood serum.

An assay was also developed using an RNA substrate to verify that RNase B had indeed retained its function after being subjected to the necessary glycan modification conditions.

The protein encoded by the novel allele of SHR appears to have retained its function as a transcription factor since the endodermal cell layer was formed both in roots and in shoots of eal1.

The court and jury rooms were turned into a local school, although occasional Courts of Attachment were held in the chapel and the castle retained its function as a prison until 1842, when the remaining inmates were transferred to the prison at Littledean.

The Sp8 gene has retained its function in regulating appendage/limb growth [ 9, 10, 12, 17] and that Sp7 has subsequently evolved a novel function, namely, regulating cartilage/bone formation [ 7].

Regarding the observed gene expression of the PEP Case in cassava roots, it is possible that the PEP Case enzyme retains its function as it does in green root plants, and thus CO2 might be fixed into cassava roots via the same mechanism.

In the absence of any variation, the trait retains its function if it is still adaptive.

However, it is possible that only one of the gene copies retains its function while the other one degenerates into a pseudogene [ 20, 21].

The sideboard still retains its function in the 20th century, but stylistically there has been a reversion to simpler types, closer in feeling to 18th-century designs.

Moreover, fluorescence immunostaining revealed that the incorporated antibody was very efficiently introduced into living cells while retaining its function, i.e. anti-NPC (nuclear pore complex) monoclonal antibody was selectively located around cell nuclei.