signaling protein

collocation in English

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signal
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈsɪɡ.nəl/us
/ˈsɪɡ.nəl/
noticeable ...
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protein
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈprəʊ.tiːn/us
/ˈproʊ.tiːn/
one of the many substances found in food such as meat, cheese, fish, or eggs, that is necessary for the body to grow and ...
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(Definition ofsignalandproteinfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The protein is an extracellular, membrane-boundsignalingproteinthat plays an essential role in embryonic development and tumor growth.
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Integrins include domains that bind divalent cations that are important for receptor-ligand interactions linking extracellular molecules, the actin cytoskeleton and cytoplasmic signaling proteins.
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Nodal is anothersignalingproteinwhich is responsible for gastrulation, left-right patterning and induction of the primitive node.
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Akt1 is also able to induce protein synthesis pathways, and is therefore a keysignalingproteinin the cellular pathways that lead to skeletal muscle hypertrophy, and general tissue growth.
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It is an upstream cellsignalingproteincommon to multicellular eukaryotes.
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These two domains were found to be widely distributed in bacterial signaling proteins.
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These have been shown to interact in a series of cell-cell and cell-matrix signaling proteins.
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The origin and expression pattern of the nodal signaling proteins differs in different species.
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More than 200 signaling proteins have been reported as 14-3-3 ligands.
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This then results in the phosphorylation of several signaling proteins located in the cell membrane.
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The genes that are being expressed fall into two categories, extracellular signaling proteins and intracellular transcription factors.
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Additionally, some signaling proteins require multiple interactions for activation and scaffold tethering may be able to convert these interactions into one interaction that results in multiple modifications.
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