The phrase "able to confer a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the ability to grant, bestow, or provide something, typically in a formal or academic context.
Example: "The committee is able to confer a degree upon students who meet the necessary requirements."
Alternatives: "capable of granting a" or "able to bestow a".
These attenuated bacilli were still able to confer a certain amount of immunity against infection with either bovine or human tubercle bacilli.
Main findings show that, for the considered geometry and properties of the case studies, even not infinitely stiff floors are able to confer a good seismic behaviour to un-reinforced masonry buildings.
The Commission has also judged the combined user datasets of Shazam and Apple as not able to confer "a unique advantage to the merged entity in the markets on which it operates".
This unique assembly technique is able to confer a high degree of modularity, versatility, and compositional heterogeneity to nanoparticles via the sequential deposition of alternately charged polyelectrolytes onto a colloidal template.
Thus, maC46 is also able to confer a selective advantage in this in vivo setting.
Detection of effector caspase activation by activity assays indicated that the knockdown of bid was able to confer a partial resistance to genotoxic drugs (Fig. 7 A C).
We first demonstrated that the inclusion of all 6 nucleotide changes was able to confer an immediate, robust in vivo replication phenotype to the chimeric RNA (tamarin T16453, Fig. 4B), similar to the pattern observed after inoculation of the parental, wild-type GBV-B RNA (T16454, Fig. 4A).
It is tempting to speculate that adiponectin-triggered increase of TR2 might be able to confer an increased apoptotic potential to mammary epithelial cells, thereby also exerting protective effects.
Tamoxifen plus progesterone treatment for 3 weeks was able to confer only a transient protection from mammary carcinogenesis, while 2-methoxy estradiol plus progesterone was effective in conferring protection against mammary cancers.
The presents study shows that phages carry antibiotic resistance genes able to confer resistance to a bacterial strain.
To evaluate whether the antibiotic resistance sequences in phage DNA correspond to potential active genes able to confer resistance in a bacterial background, phage DNA from sewage samples 6, 7 and 15, was transfected in two E. coli recipient hosts (C600nalR and WG5), both of which nalidixic acid-resistant and ampicillin-sensitive.
