The phrase "a number of transcripts" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to multiple transcripts, typically in academic or administrative contexts.
Example: "The committee reviewed a number of transcripts to assess the applicants' qualifications."
Alternatives: "several transcripts" or "multiple transcripts".
A number of transcripts were identified to be significantly modulated for transcriptional factors.
To verify the results of the transcriptional profiling, we performed qPCR of a number of transcripts shared by the compounds (8 up- and 10 down regulated transcripts).
One category of genes within which a number of transcripts showed a significant linear relationship of expression with Cd exposure was the transcription factors.
We sorted the actively dividing versus non-dividing cells from cultured glioma cells, and parental and clonally derived orthotopic tumors, and analyzed them for a number of transcripts.
These transcriptomic studies show overall that under flooding, a number of transcripts are affected in both roots and shoots of soybean seedlings.
A number of transcripts encoding proteins regulating intracellular trafficking of secretory pathways were changed, with a predominant increase in transcription of ER/Golgi-related transcripts.
In isolated cardiomyocytes in vitro, SERCA2a overexpression significantly modified the expression of a number of transcripts known to be involved in insulin signaling, glucose metabolism and cardiac remodeling.
We therefore determined whether IL-3 altered the turnover of a number of transcripts linked to myeloblast growth or function, in addition to p21.
A number of transcripts for other integrins implicated in stem cell biology and prostate cancer are up-regulated in the UGE.
This analysis has also led to the identification of expression of a number of transcripts, previously known and novel, which to our knowledge have never earlier been associated with bone growth and remodelling.
For example, while down-regulation of MRP1/2 decreased the levels of edited CYb and RPS12, no affects on editing were observed for a number of transcripts including COII and A6.
