The phrase "a cleavage between" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant division or gap between two entities, often in a metaphorical sense, such as in social, political, or ideological contexts.
Example: "There is a noticeable cleavage between the two political parties, making collaboration increasingly difficult."
Alternatives: "a divide between" or "a gap between".
It's not a cleavage between the two," he said.
The Administration's entire strategy in arguing the health-care case has been to create a cleavage between Justice Kennedy and the three conservative ultras, in the belief that Chief Justice Roberts would then side with the majority to avoid a five-to-four ruling.
Among migrants to Britain from Bangladesh, there is a cleavage between those who hew to their Bengali identity, and therefore bond easily with Hindu Bengalis, and those who regard themselves as Muslims first and associate mostly with co-religionists, wherever they are from.
From the turmoil of which it was the centre emerged a sharper alignment of political and social forces, leading to such drastic anticlerical measures as the separation of church and state in 1905 and to a cleavage between right-wing nationalists and left-wing antimilitarists that haunted French life until 1914 and even later.
We assist in this period at an experiment which leads to a cleavage between Western Europe and the East.
The political disagreements roughly corresponded to a cleavage between two factions.
This is usually done by engineering a cleavage site between the tag and the encoded protein that is recognised by a site-specific protease, such as the one from tobacco etch virus (TEV).
As predicted by SignalP 3.0, this protein would have a peptide signal with a cleavage site between positions 21 and 22.
According to the SignalP 3.0 program [20] the nuPsb28 SP is composed of 18 amino acids, followed by a cleavage site between alanine (A) and phenylalanine (F) (Figure 1).
The results of MS analysis indicated that the creation of the ≈120 kDa protein represents classical autotransporter pathway of processing of PmpD with a cleavage site between the PD and TD (aa 1242 and 1243) recognized by outer membrane proteases.
Similar to cleavage of APS1, 4 among 10 sequenced clones had a cleavage site between 11 12 nucleotide (Fig. 4).
