Example sentences for: motility

How can you use “motility” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Motility assays have been performed with a number of the kinesins.

  • The actA internal in-frame deletion mutant (DP-L1942) [ 30], which cannot initiate the polymerization of actin, was used to assess transcriptional responses specific to the motility phase of infection.

  • As infections were most efficient in subconfluent Caco-2 cells, which do not have differentiated apical and basolateral surfaces, we chose these conditions for our microarray experiments with the goal of inducing as much actin-based motility as possible.

  • Motility assays [ 48] and ATPase assays [ 48, 49, 50] using myosin-like proteins isolated from plants have also demonstrated the presence of myosins in plants.

  • One of great importance, urokinase (uPA) and its high affinity receptor, the GPI-anchored membrane CD87 (uPAR), is critical in tumour progression and its level of expression is correlated with poor prognosis of various cancers such as prostate [ 2 ] , breast [ 3 ] , colon [ 4 ] , ovarian [ 5 ] , gastric [ 6 ] , brain [ 7 ] , and lung cancer [ 8 ] . Urokinase (uPA) and its main product plasmin belong to the very early proteases [ 9 10 11 ] that activate the metallo-protease (MMP) cascade and therefore control cell motility, tissue remodelling and the activation of various angiogenic factors (VEGF, TGFβ).


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