The levator palatoquadrati, which elevates the upper jaw in jawed fishes, is retained as a jaw muscle in birds and in some reptiles, as they share the ability of fishes to move the upper jaw.
Thus, since it is capable of lowering the pH at the site of colonisation, it also shares the ability of S. mutans to dissolve the hydroxylapatite crystals in the dental hard tissues.
Since no other species share the ability of mouse PLCζs for nuclear translocation, it remains unclear whether this is a widespread phenomenon in mammals, or whether it holds any physiological importance.
Two reunited brothers compare tattoos and joke that they are hereditary; another pair of long-separated brothers find that they share the ability to fold most of their ears into their ear canals (the show's most disturbing visual by far).
These vascular progenitors share the ability to generate some of the vascular lineages, including endothelial cells, smooth muscle cells, and pericytes.
Remarkably, S. aureus and E. coli L-forms share the ability to proliferate independently of FtsZ, and although definitive experiments are more difficult to perform in C. glutamicum, it appears that they will also share this property.
Thus, NF-Y and c-Myb may share the ability to initiate the remodeling of chromatin and the activation of cell cycle regulated genes.
Together with PLTP, CETP, BPI, and LBP, the PLUNC proteins form a superfamily known as the lipid transfer/lipopolysaccharide binding protein (LT/LBP) family, whose members share the ability to bind a variety of lipid substrates.
Because proteins HMGA1 and HMGA2 proteins share the ability to regulate a number of common genes, some functions might be compensated by the expression of the other member of the HMGA family.
Notably, these compounds (including tamoxifen) share the ability to activate a heterodimer of the steroid and xenobiotic receptor (SXR [ 10], also known as PXR [ 11], PAR [ 12], and NR1I2 [ 13]) and retinoid × receptor (RXR) [ 14].
