The phrase "a function in the maintenance of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the role or purpose of something in relation to its upkeep or preservation.
Example: "The committee plays a crucial function in the maintenance of community standards and safety."
Alternatives: "a role in the upkeep of" or "a part in the preservation of".
Furthermore, its sustained expression in postnatal brain implies a function in the maintenance of neuronal morphology.
Characteristically, the teeth of Old World monkeys have a function in the maintenance of social order within the group as well as an overtly offensive role; their function as organs of digestion is relatively unimportant.
If self-grooming serves a function in the maintenance of cuticular bacteria, this is consistent with ants that were forced to work with a non-native Pseudonocardia phylotype being less motivated to protect their cuticular actinomycetes against secondary invaders, particularly when the new phylotype (Ps2) was more robust against such secondary invasions [ 33].
Although both Peg10 and Peg11 are derived from the sushi-ichi retrotransposon and have Gag and Pol-like sequences, they have biologically very different functions: the former has a function in the formation of spongiotrophoblast and labyrinth layer, while the latter has a function in the maintenance of feto-maternal interface.
However, as β-Catenin signalling has been shown to promote pluripotency (Doble et al., 2007; Kelly et al., 2011; Lyashenko et al., 2011; Wray et al., 2011; Yi et al., 2011; Faunes et al., 2013), there is a possibility that, as in the case of BMP, its effects on Sox1 GFP expression reflect a function in the maintenance of pluripotency rather than on neural differentiation.
Apart from contributing to inflammation, gp130 signaling cytokines also function in the maintenance of bone homeostasis.
This study provides insight into gene expression changes that may function in the maintenance of LTM.
This observation indicated that VIM1, in particular, might have a role in the maintenance of chromatin structure unconnected from its function in DNA methylation maintenance.
Our study demonstrated that lsy-2 functions in the maintenance of the soma-germ distinction.
p53 is activated in response to DNA damage and functions in the maintenance of genetic integrity.
PARP1 and PARP2 possess both overlapping and non-redundant functions in the maintenance of genomic stability.
