The phrase "a minor pathway" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a less significant or less frequently used route or method in various contexts, such as biology, transportation, or decision-making.
Example: "In the study of cellular processes, researchers often focus on the major pathways, but they should not overlook a minor pathway that may also play a crucial role."
Alternatives: "a secondary route" or "a lesser pathway".
The analyses results confirmed that beside sweep flocculation mechanism, known as the main removal mechanism, the degradation of dye was occurred during EC-Fe as a minor pathway.
The electrophilic attack by MRS5980 is a minor pathway and did not alter GSH levels in liver or liver histology, and thus may be of minor clinical consequence.
Dehydrogenation was a minor pathway in the cyclohexane- and cyclohexene-doped flames because unimolecular dissociation, not H-atom abstraction, consumed the dopants and their conjugate radicals in these nonpremixed flames.
Although widely cited, current evidence suggests that this is a minor pathway and that most HDL-FC and nHDL-FC rapidly transfer directly to the liver independent of lecithin cholesterol acyltransferase activity.
A minor pathway through CYP450 had been also reported to yield a highly reactive metabolite, N-acetyl-p-benzoquinonimine (NAPQI).
First, although the pathway leading to HOBB accumulation is the major pathway, DBF can be also consumed by a minor pathway to produce another product called 4- 2-hydroxy-3-benzofuranyl -2-oxo-3-butenoic acid (Fig. 1b).
Sulphation is a relatively minor pathway for drug metabolism but may be increased in the neonatal period.
Therefore, de novo lipogenesis is a quantitatively minor pathway in heart and is not enhanced by insulin-resistance and diabetes.
As the capacity of sulphotransferases is limited, the glucuronidation pathway increases in importance throughout childhood, causing sulphation to be a relatively minor pathway for paracetamol clearance in adults.
This unconventional secretory mechanism, first identified in yeast and amoebae, is not mediated by ER signal sequences and appears to be a relatively minor pathway (Pfeffer, 2010).
These extra COs arise not from the pathway that accounts for most of the COs in wild type, but from an alternate, normally minor pathway.
