The phrase "act as a restraining" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where something is functioning to limit or control actions or behaviors.
Example: "The new regulations will act as a restraining force on excessive corporate spending."
Alternatives: "serve as a limitation" or "function as a constraint".
They singled Ridley out for having failed "to provide against the risks that [Northern Rock] was taking and to act as an effective restraining force on the strategy of the executive members".
The availability of publicly provided health care (of a certain quality) acts as a restraining price bulwark that helps to keep private health care charges within a more affordable range.
Another speculation may be that ITO acts as a barrier, restraining the diffusion of some elements, e.g., sodium from the SGL glass during high-temperature spray process as it has been recorded by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy for the CSP-deposited CuInS2 films [41].
Thus, it is possible that miR455-3P asts as a rheostat restraining a hypoxia response that could otherwise prevent CT to SCT differentiation.
However, since plastic rotations change sign at the sides of the joints that contain the maximum plastic displacement, the common vertical post at s remains elastic and causes the adjoining modules to act as rotationally restrained horizontal portal frames.
If the LKB1-AMPK pathway does indeed act as a tumor suppressor that normally restrains growth and proliferation of cancer cells as well as the associated metabolic changes, one would expect such cells to be under selective pressure to down-regulate the pathway.
Interpreted through our model, the strongly conserved β57 Asp acts as a latch that restrains α76 Arg through the conserved salt bridge.
Much of the credit for this must go to the leaders of the different Christian denominations who, though politically divided, acted as restraining influences on their congregations.
