effector

IPA: ɪfˈɛktɝ

(biology) Any muscle, organ etc. that can respond to a stimulus from a nerve.
(biology) The part of a nerve that carries a stimulus to a muscle etc.
(biology) Any small molecule that effects the function of an enzyme by binding to an allosteric site.
An actuator.

Examples of "effector" in Sentences

This process is called effector triggered immunity (ETI).
Naive CD8, and CD62L expression is lost during the 'effector' phase.
"effector" members of the IRG protein family such as Irga6, Irgb6 and Irgd
But a few of these "effector" T cells survive and become memory T cells, ensuring that the immune system can respond faster and stronger the next time around.
Its primary way of killing cancer cells is by eliciting an immune response, drawing what are known as effector cells (various types of killer white blood cells) to the tumor and activating them.
In the first study, Satoshi Nishimura and colleagues from the University of Tokyo show that CD8+ effector T cells play an important role in macrophage recruitment and adipose tissue inflammation.
She said the new findings reinforce the notion that V. para kills a host cell through the combined efforts of several so-called effector proteins working together rather than through the actions of a single protein.
Professor Alan Cowman, head of the institute's Infection and Immunity division, said the parasite remodels the red blood cells by exporting hundreds of so-called 'effector' proteins into the cytoplasm of the red blood cell.
In particular we identified a large number of so-called effector genes that are critical to pathogenesis that had been previously unknown and are extremely challenging to predict because of their small size and unusual structure. "