The phrase "a much less active" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to compare the level of activity of one subject to another, indicating that the first subject is significantly less active.
Example: "After the injury, he became a much less active participant in the sports club."
Alternatives: "far less active" or "significantly less active".
The United States government, by contrast, says it wants to stay out of the business of running banks, and has taken a far smaller stake and a much less active role in Citigroup, Bank of America and others.
VEGFR1, on the other hand, has a higher affinity for VEGF but is a much less active tyrosine kinase.
Treatment of a diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) cell line which contains the Y641N mutant EZH2 with UNC1999 for 8 days resulted in a potent antiproliferative effect, which is not observed following treatment with UNC2400, a related molecule which is much less active as an EZH2 inhibitor.
A control reporter gene containing five mutant c-Myb binding sites (EM5) was much less active in these cells, and its activity was unaffected by the different forms of v-ErbA.
As reported, the crystalline phase possesses a key role in photocatalytic activity of organic compounds in a way that the rutile phase is much less active [7].
Remarkably, the Ring1B IRES seems to be sensitive to the absence of a translation initiation complex, since it is much less active when the eIF4E binding domain is cleaved off eIF4G by viral protease 2A.
Compared with males, Saudi females, were significantly (p < 0.05) more sedentary, much less active, especially in terms of vigorous activity, and consumed breakfast, fruits, milk/dairy products, sugar-sweetened drinks, fast foods and energy drinks on fewer days per week.
Every participant's scan showed that the parts of the brain that sense danger were much less active when they gripped a pal's hand.
In this study, we focused on 7-deshydroxypyrogallin-4-carboxylic acid (DCA) (Figure S3B), with an IC50 on Shp2 as 2.1 µM, but much less active on several other tyrosine phosphatases tested, including HePTP, LypCAT, CD45, PTP1B and a dual specificity phosphatase VHR (Figure S3C).
For example, in the absence of FBP, PKM2K422R showed a significantly high level of tetramer formation, but was much less active than PKM2WT.
In boys with ADHD, the researchers report in the April Nature Medicine, a part of the striatum called the putamen was much less active.
