Explore Receptor through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like structure or organ. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Receptor meaning
- A protein on a cell wall that binds with specific molecules so that they can be absorbed into the cell in order to control certain functions.
- Any specialized cell or structure that responds to sensory stimuli.
- One who receives something or someone; in particular, one who harbors a fugitive.
Synonyms of Receptor
Using Receptor
- The main meaning on this page is: A protein on a cell wall that binds with specific molecules so that they can be absorbed into the cell in order to control certain functions. | Any specialized cell or structure that responds to sensory stimuli. | One who receives something or someone; in particular, one who harbors a fugitive.
- Useful related words include: structure, anatomical structure, complex body part, bodily structure.
- In the example corpus, receptor often appears in combinations such as: the receptor, receptor is, receptor tyrosine.
Context around Receptor
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 12 start, 8 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Receptor
- In this selection, "receptor" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, cell, insulin, hormone, tyrosine, activation and signals stand out and add context to how "receptor" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include is a receptor that can and 2004 58 receptor tyrosine kinases. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "receptor" sits close to words such as ale, appointing and avery, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with receptor
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
On receptor activation, the receptor becomes highly affine for the G protein - GDP complex. (14 words)
Receptor details By 2004, 58 receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) were known, grouped into 20 subfamilies. (15 words)
Ligand-receptor binding induces a change in the conformation of the inside part of the receptor. (16 words)
Attempts to interfere with the binding of HIV with the CD4 receptor have failed to stop HIV from infecting helper T cells, but research continues on trying to interfere with the binding of HIV to the CCR5 receptor in hopes that it will be more effective. (46 words)
There was a concern that drugs called or angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs), which are used to treat high blood pressure and heart failure, could increase levels of the ACE2 proteins, the receptor on the surface of cells in the body. (40 words)
Calreticulin can inhibit the binding of androgen receptor to its hormone-responsive DNA element and can inhibit androgen receptor and retinoic acid receptor transcriptional activities in vivo, as well as retinoic acid-induced neuronal differentiation. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Like the insulin receptor, the IGF-I receptor is a receptor tyrosine kinase —meaning the receptor signals by causing the addition of a phosphate molecule on particular tyrosines.
Stimulative hormone receptor (Rs) is a receptor that can bind with stimulative signal molecules, while inhibitory hormone receptor (Ri) is a receptor that can bind with inhibitory signal molecules.
Calreticulin can inhibit the binding of androgen receptor to its hormone-responsive DNA element and can inhibit androgen receptor and retinoic acid receptor transcriptional activities in vivo, as well as retinoic acid-induced neuronal differentiation.
Many receptor enzymes have closely related structure and receptor tyrosine kinase activity, and it is said by Lehninger (2008) that the foundational or prototypical receptor enzyme, is insulin.
The combination of a signaling molecule with a receptor causes a change in the conformation of the receptor, known as receptor activation.
The IGF-1 receptor is the "physiological" receptor— IGF-I binds to it at significantly higher affinity than it binds the insulin receptor.
There was a concern that drugs called or angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs), which are used to treat high blood pressure and heart failure, could increase levels of the ACE2 proteins, the receptor on the surface of cells in the body.
This dual-targeted delivery is achieved through target receptor internalization into tumor cells, and Fcγ receptor (FcγR)-mediated internalization into immune cells, facilitated by ADC binding to the tumor antigen.
Using an unsupervised learning algorithm, the team was able to convert the T-cell receptor sequencing data into numeric distances based on similarities in the receptor sequences and cluster them by functional specificity.
An irreversible antagonist binds so strongly to the receptor as to render the receptor unavailable for binding to the agonist.
As DMT has been shown to have slightly better efficacy (EC 50 ) at human serotonin 2C receptor than at the 2A receptor, 5-HT 2C is also likely implicated in DMT's overall effects.
Attempts to interfere with the binding of HIV with the CD4 receptor have failed to stop HIV from infecting helper T cells, but research continues on trying to interfere with the binding of HIV to the CCR5 receptor in hopes that it will be more effective.
Both analgesia and drug addiction are functions of the mu opioid receptor, the class of opioid receptor first identified as responsive to morphine.
Domain structure of chemotaxis receptor for Asp Flagellum regulation The proteins CheW and CheA bind to the receptor.
It expanded to refer to any molecule or a linear molecular fragment that can be recognized by highly variable antigen receptors ( B-cell receptor or T-cell receptor ) of the adaptive immune system.
It is interesting to note that insulin receptor substrates IRS2 and IRS3 each have unique characteristic tissue function and distribution that serves to enhance signaling capabilities in pathways that are initiated by receptor tyrosine kinases.
Killer T cells are activated when their T cell receptor (TCR) binds to this specific antigen in a complex with the MHC Class I receptor of another cell.
Ligand-receptor binding induces a change in the conformation of the inside part of the receptor.
On receptor activation, the receptor becomes highly affine for the G protein - GDP complex.
Receptor details By 2004, 58 receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) were known, grouped into 20 subfamilies.
Common combinations with receptor
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: