The phrase "acquire compounds" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to chemistry, pharmacology, or any field where obtaining or gathering chemical compounds is relevant.
Example: "In order to conduct the experiment, we need to acquire compounds that exhibit the desired properties."
Alternatives: "obtain compounds" or "procure compounds".
Purity of the acquired compounds was measured by HPLC and were higher than 95%.
Over the course of >50 years that the NCI has been acquiring compounds (Endnote 3), we have registered more than 550,000 compounds.
Females lay eggs on milkweed and their caterpillars feed on this plant, acquiring compounds that make the butterflies toxic to potential predators, as they warn with the striking orange and black pattern on their wings.
Also, the presence of these three commercially acquired compounds was confirmed in ethanol extract of S. jambos prepared for the current study by TLC.
The ethanol extract and three commercially acquired compounds namely; myricetin, myricitrin, gallic acid exhibited significant antioxidant activity with fifty percent inhibitory concentration (IC50) ranging between 0.8-1.9 μg/ml which was comparable to that of vitamin C, the reference antioxidant agent.
Following these principles, Borenstein et al., [ 7] applied a graph-theoretical algorithm to determine these exogenously acquired compounds - they called it the seed set of an organism - for each of the 478 prokaryotic species with available metabolic networks in the KEGG database [ 4].
One approach for determining the mode of action of a small molecule involves the selection and full genome sequencing of mutants that acquire compound resistance.
However, the silverfish isolation control experiment (additional file 6) finally shows that isolated silverfish did not acquire additional compounds during isolation that elicit aggression.
Such a lifestyle may allow these bacteria to acquire essential compounds directly from the metabolic activities of their host and the adaptation to this environmental condition might have caused the loss of entire metabolic routes or parts thereof.
These features well explain the non-culturability of SFBs and further suggest that they acquire these compounds, probably from the host intestinal epithelia to which SFBs are tightly attached, via well-conserved transport systems.
