The phrase "a close counterpart of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that closely resembles or corresponds to another thing in function, role, or characteristics.
Example: "The new smartphone model is a close counterpart of its predecessor, featuring similar design elements and functionality."
Alternatives: "a near equivalent of" or "a close equivalent to".
In the social sciences generally and economics in particular, the evolution of the sample survey provides a close counterpart to the development of the natural sciences' powerful measurement devices.
Because SHMT1 is the major functional SHMT enzyme in Arabidopsis [ 13, 14], maize SHMT1, the closest counterpart of Arabidopsis SHMT1, was used in this study.
The closest counterparts of Norway's oil fund in Europe or North America are the investment funds created with petroleum revenue in Alberta (current population roughly four million) and Alaska (current population almost 750,000).
Unexpectedly, the closest counterparts of finTRIM B30.2 sequences were not found in other TRIM, but were associated with NACHT and leucine-rich repeats (LRRs -ribonuclease inhibitor (RI)-LRRs -ribonuclease proteinhibitor
But as The Times was pressing for a response on Wednesday, the newly opened branch of the Louvre in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, tweeted that the painting "is coming to Louvre Abu Dhabi". The Saudi crown prince is a close ally of his counterpart in Abu Dhabi.
Also, Arg45, Tyr54, and Ile65 of SalBIII have close counterparts in Cyc11, consistent with one or more of these residues also playing a catalytic role.
Subsection (c) of section 304 is a close but not exact counterpart of section 203.
The Golden Retriever Muscular Dystrophy (GRMD) dog is the closest animal counterpart of Duchenne muscular dystrophy in humans and has, for this reason, increasingly been used in preclinical therapeutic trials for this disease.
Third, this miRNA signature was applied to PTCL/NOS samples using a cell-type classifier based on a support vector machine algorithm: such analysis showed that activated CD4+ and CD8+ T-lymphocytes represented the closest normal counterpart of the tumour.
