Many secreted proteins are particularly important in bacterial pathogenesis.

The encoded protein is processed to a mature secreted form that exists as a homodimer.

R-spondin-1 is a secreted protein that in humans is encoded by the Rspo1 gene, found on chromosome 1.

Pepsin in its secreted form is inactive (pepsinogen).

Additional allele specific isoforms, including a secreted form, have been described but have not been fully characterized.

IgD is also produced in a secreted form that is found in very small amounts in blood serum.

The secreted form of human TNFα takes on a triangular pyramid shape, and weighs around 17-kD.

The theca is a secreted covering predominately composed of cellulose or other polysaccharides (Adl, et al., 2005).

In this activated form, the B cell starts to produce antibody in a secreted form rather than a membrane-bound form.

The name YKL-40 is derived from the three N-terminal amino acids present on the secreted form and it's molecular mass.

He showed that RNA splicing is the mechanism for generating the membrane bound and the secreted forms of antibodies.

His work also revealed a physiological role for the secreted form of amyloid precursor protein generated by alpha-secretase activity (sAPPalpha).

Additionally, they might also function in excluding secreted proteins from COPI-coated retrograde vesicles [ 9, 10].

First group antagonists are composed of secreted Frizzled Related protein family (Sfrp) and Wnt inhibitory factor (Wif).

The exact manner in which the secreted acid reaches the stomach lumen is controversial, as acid must first cross the relatively pH neutral gastric mucus layer.

In 1974 Niels Kaj Jerne proposed that the immune system functions as a network, that is regulated via interactions between the variable parts of lymphocytes and their secreted molecules.

Sialomucins are a heterogeneous group of secreted or membrane-associated mucins that appear to play two key but opposing roles in vivo: first as cytoprotective or antiadhesive agents, and second as adhesion receptors.

A nicotinamidase found in humans, known as PBEF, may serve a similar function, and a secreted form of PBEF known as visfatin may help to regulate serum insulin levels.

Although parvulin has no homology with larger prolyl isomerases such as cyclophilin and FKBP, it does share structural features with subdomains of other proteins involved in preparing secreted proteins for export from the cell.

The secreted form has been referred to as megakaryocyte potentiating factor (MPF) for its ability to stimulate the megakaryocyte colony forming activity of murine IL-3 in mouse bone marrow cell culture [ 23 24 ] .

Astrocytes express a number of secreted and membrane-attached factors both in vitro and in vivo that are known to regulate proliferation and fate specification of adult neural precursors as well as neuronal migration, maturation, and synapse formation.

Now the government was secreting power to itself from the states.

She secreted the child from her family, before and after the crime.

Where was she going to secrete the thing so that he would not see it?

He had the roots of things secreted in his mind.

Still more were secreted away in other rooms on the floor.

"And would security guards have secreted themselves as these two did?"

It was amazing just how much he could secrete about his person.

They can also cause the body to secrete more nutrients.

It would have taken far longer than half an hour for anyone to secrete all these items.

Others in my family may have secreted small things, but what I do not know."

I was told body fat secretes estrogen into your system.

"I have to secrete a few things at a time to avoid discovery."

The bride would then be secreted outside the town or village.

We've got nine rooms; they were all secreted under there.

Today, soldiers were secreting weapons in the back of a white van.

I moved round the tree to secrete myself as he advanced.

The composition of the milk secreted by the mother changes over time.

Somewhere between here and there, I would secrete a weapon.

As a young girl, she even secreted one away.

I would expect that he secreted himself in one of them. "

The two giant children ran toward these and secreted themselves behind the containers.

This liquid is secreted onto the surface of the skin.

It may be that my father secreted his sword there somewhere.

And that some are also secreted as possible transplant donors.

"Wherever you have secreted the box, go and get it."