specificity

Preposition: of

• assay: The specificity of both assays, however, lags behind that of cytology.
• antibody: Techniques of compatibility testing of specificity of red blood cell antibodies found in patient's sera.
• enzyme: One approach is to change the natural substrate specificity of an enzyme through mutagenesis.

Converse of object

• confer: The a subunit is common to all three hormones and the b subunit confers specificity of binding.
• determine: In addition, we are using in vitro gene shuffling to study the domains determining specificity of Pto.
• alter: Both rational redesign and directed evolutionary approaches are being used in my laboratory to alter the specificity and chemistry of selected enzymes.
• define: The sera used to define these specificities are listed in Table 2.

Adjective modifier

• serological: This has allowed for the typing of HLA serological antigen specificities.
• binding: Different combinations of a & b subunits make a large variety of integrins with different binding specificity.
• diagnostic: I am currently investigating the diagnostic specificity of NSS in 320 first episode psychosis patients.
• historical: We need theory that allows us to understand the historical specificity of struggles.
• cultural: There are two main planks for getting cultural specificity.
• molecular: Rebecca Wyand ( JIC ) investigated molecular host specificity in wild grass powdery mildew by screening a collection of isolates by ITS sequencing.

Modifies a noun

• determinant: In addition to these tissue specificity determinants a core set of basic pathogenicity factors will be generally required for plant colonization.

Noun used with modifier

• substrate: It has a much narrower substrate specificity than the soluble form.
• autoantibody: A PAIg test and determination of autoantibody specificity may be of use.
• antibody: Analysis of the pattern of cell killing enables the determination of antibody specificity.
• antigen: Whilst not showing antigen specificity, they clearly exhibit some degree of selectivity in targeting " abnormal " cells for lysis.
• host: The talks on Thursday morning covered different ways to study host specificity.
• enzyme: These systems are also an excellent model of how enzyme specificity is controlled in a more general sense.