Sentence examples for substance bound to from inspiring English sources
Endotoxin, toxic substance bound to the bacterial cell wall and released when the bacterium ruptures or disintegrates.
"It is striking that transfers of microplastics – and the hazardous substances bound to them – from urban wastewater to farmland has not previously been considered by scientists and regulators," the scientists concluded.
These substances bind to receptors on peripheral nociceptive terminals, which leads to heightened excitability of the nerve fiber.
Bitter substances bind to and are discriminated by a family of roughly ∼30 bitter taste receptors (TAS2Rs) expressed in taste receptor cells [5] [9].
Although PS and nifedipine have entirely different chemical structures, it is conceivable that both substances bind to the same or to overlapping binding sites.
The SERS method was used to confirm the hypothesis that substances bind to DNA and to confirm which main bases are modified after this binding to DNA (see Supplementary Material).
Isoflavonoids and related compounds such as coumestrol have classically been categorized as phytoestrogens because these environmentally derived substances bind to the estrogen receptor (ER) and increase uterine wet weight in immature rats and mice.
Therefore, the supra-additivity cannot be explained by the presence of only one type of binding site and we conclude that the two substances bind to two different, but positively interacting binding sites.
Nevertheless, this observed supra-additivity does not necessarily mean that the two substances act on different binding sites because supra-additive behaviour can, in principle, also occur if the substances bind to the same binding site, provided that the dose-response curve is steep (Hill coefficient larger than one).
The substance binds to clay in freshwater conditions, but crucially is released again by saltwater.
In the case of protein hormone synthesis, the target cell is stimulated when a hormone or other substance binds to a receptor on the surface of the cell.
