The phrase "a putative basis" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an assumed or supposed foundation for an argument, theory, or claim.
Example: "The researchers proposed a putative basis for the observed phenomena, suggesting that further studies were needed to confirm their hypothesis."
Alternatives: "an assumed foundation" or "a presumed basis".
The above pinpoint to the potential of okra hydrocolloids to form a putative basis for the development of prosthetics and scaffolds for bone and cartilage engineering.
The S-maps appeared to be stable in time and similar across the EEG frequency bands, suggesting structural brain changes in SZ as a putative basis of synchronization changes.
The demonstration of increased mucosal nerve fibres immunoreactive to TRPV1 in human colonic biopsies from IBS patients, and their correlation with the degree of abdominal pain, may provide a putative basis of IBS symptoms.
Indeed, there are numerous glutamatergic and perisomatic GABAergic axon terminals in close proximity around the soma and proximal dendrites of pyramidal cells, providing a putative basis for nonsynaptic interactions between these 2 types of synapses (Merchán-Pérez, Rodriguez, Ribak, et al. 2009).
These studies provide a putative structural basis for the mechanism of action of selective antifungal peptides.
Hippocampal LTP, a form of synaptic plasticity, provides a putative physiological basis for hippocampus-dependent learning and memory (30, 31).
To address a putative molecular basis of this relationship, we performed a Y2H assay to test for direct interaction between five different BRP constructs and a full length Aplip1 construct (see Figure 3B for domain structure).
Moreover, Sir2 regulates the asymmetric segregation of oxidatively damaged proteins from daughter cells to mother cells during cell division in yeast providing a putative mechanistic basis for Sir2's role in oxidative stress resistance and lifespan extension [ 15].
In addition, given the high plasticity of the traits studied (Casson and Gray, 2008; Lampard, 2010, and references therein), phenotypes may differ between laboratory conditions and natural environments, fading a putative adaptive basis in the underlying genetic variation.
The putative basis for these phenomena are neural computations related to updating and reorienting attention due to violations of expectations and the detection of change.
The amount of precision provided by such methods may be unnecessary to analyze a putative model on the basis of experimental results that only provide qualitative levels for the components of the system.
