The phrase "a unique function in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a specific role or purpose that something serves within a particular context or system.
Example: "The enzyme plays a unique function in the metabolic pathway, facilitating the conversion of substrates into energy."
Alternatives: "a distinct role in" or "a specific purpose in".
To determine whether IKKε has a unique function in the innate immune response, we knocked out the mouse IKKε gene, and homozygous mutant mice were infected with flu virus.
"The result is that we will be a much more profitable business – perhaps not as large as Johnston Press in the past, but certainly a sustainable business performing a unique function in the economy and society, and delivering positive returns for our shareholders".
Then there exists a unique function in such that.
Each class of lipoprotein possesses a unique function in delivering lipids to tissues.
The Gaussian is a unique function in many ways and is of particular importance to biology.
The four-subunit pol-prim complex performs a unique function in the initial step of DNA synthesis.
After the duplication event, each copy can then specialise in a unique function or in a distinct location.
We show that the steady-state heat(mass) transfer coefficient is not a unique function of position in parameter regions in which the Graetz problem with surface reaction has multiple solutions.
In conclusion, this manuscript identifies a unique function of PRMT5 in differentiating OPCs: orchestrating the cross-talk between histone symmetric arginine methylation and prevent re-acetylation of critical lysine residues in cells which require histone deacetylation and chromatin compaction to achieve a fully differentiated state.
This may implicate another Nox, for example Nox1 ortholog, in otoconia formation prior to Nox3 appearance in land vertebrates, or it may point to a unique function of Nox3 in land vertebrates.
Given an analytic local diffeomorphism K as in (5) satisfying (6), it follows that there exists a unique function Σ, defined in a neighborhood Ω of the limit cycle Γ, Σ : Ω ⊂ R 2 → R x ↦ Σ ( x ) (13).
