While network motifs can be viewed as tools to facilitate understanding, they may also serve as functional units that are used again and again by nature to solve biological problems.
Jin, J. et al. Eukaryotic protein domains as functional units of cellular evolution.
The next layer is the Corporate Center, which includes CLT members and about 25 others who serve as functional and platform leaders (the latter oversee the business units).
Moreover, cartilage and subchondral bone serve as a functional unit to maintain joint homeostasis and a disruption or modification of either of these two tissues may lead to the remodeling of the other (for review see [ 56]).
In these new materials, the rigid polymer cellulose diacetate (CDA) serves as skeleton, and the flexible polymer polyethylene glycol (PEG) serves as functional branch chain.
In topology plan building procedure, they serve as functional markers.
In this regard, MPs serve as functional mediators for TBI-induced injuries and their progression.
From an evolutionary perspective, parsimony in natural selection might be expected to lead to multiple uses of the same residue, such that one residue could serve in two functional units, and one functional unit might serve as a foundation or scaffold from which to build other functional units, thereby leading to interconnected functional units.
Overall, our data strongly suggest that modules are the functional integrated systems serving as the real unit of plasticity within RGPs.
Skitch is a great app for kids in addition to serving as a functional and unique photo-sharing service.
During the whole life cycle of EBOV, the nucleocapsid complex serves as the basic functional unit of its genome and is therefore an important target for anti-viral intervention.
