The phrase "a general function of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the role or purpose of something in a broad or overarching context.
Example: "In biology, a general function of enzymes is to catalyze chemical reactions."
Alternatives: "a common role of" or "a typical purpose of".
Coding for functional ribozymes, at present, cannot be considered a general function of satDNA.
If there is indeed a general function of SM proteins in SNARE-mediated fusion, that function cannot generally depend on Qa-SNARE N-peptide interactions.
Each buyer submits a bid separately for each good but their utility function is a general function of allocations of bundles of various divisible goods.
We depart from prior CAFE analyses by focusing on vehicle design responses in long-run oligopolistic equilibrium, and we view vehicles as differentiated products, taking demand as a general function of price and product attributes.
Formal approximate solutions, for small ϵi, for the system where G is a general function of the N-dependent variables fi, are obtained by the method of matched asymptotic expansions.
The demand is assumed as a general function of price.
They have a general function prediction as members of the RND family of exporters and are well conserved in bacteria.
Future work will thus have to evaluate whether the ability to stabilize microtubules is a direct function of cenexin, or a more general function of centriolar appendages.
Our follow-up studies on Emi1 suggests that its translational repression acts as a mechanism to enhance post-translational protein inactivation, which could represent a more general function of translational repression in mitosis and in other processes.
Whether this observation could account for a more general function of βarrs in the targeting of GPCRs to PCs is a key question to be addressed.
These data may hint to a more general function of trp4 as regulator of other ion channels and to a novel regulatory mechanism for CFTR.
