How to Use active site in a Sentence

active site

noun

• The two churches were able to retain their names and will continue as active sites of the new parish.
  — Maryann Pisano, chicagotribune.com, 7 July 2018
• Each enzyme has an active site, which is where the reaction takes place.
  — Svenja Lohner, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2016
• Many drugs are designed to fit into this active site, which can keep a protein from working.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 25 Mar. 2022
• Including this project, Brasfield & Gorrie has four active sites in Cary.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 21 Nov. 2019
• As the chain gets progressively longer, its ability to fit into the active site of the enzymes gradually gets worse.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 Jan. 2020
• This method revealed five particular amino acids that comprise the likely active site.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 20 Jan. 2018
• Errors affecting the enzyme’s active site that binds to drugs, however, can cripple its ability to break down a drug and subsequently mean there’s more of the drug circulating in the blood.
  — C. Michael White, The Conversation, 4 Oct. 2021
• There are multiple investigations still going on at the active site.
  — Mariah Rush, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2021
• At these active sites, crop species experts evaluate, grow and distribute germplasm to researchers, professors and breeders worldwide.
  — Sena Christian, Newsweek, 19 Nov. 2015
• The nation’s active sites get an average of 8,700 requests to access their stocks annually, according to Peter Bretting, who oversees the system.
  — Sena Christian, Newsweek, 19 Nov. 2015
• Subsequent studies report three drugs, boceprevir, narlaprevir, and telaprevir, inhibit NSP5 protease proteolytic activity and bind into its active site.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 4 June 2021

Last Updated: 13 Oct 2024