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Discover LudwigThe phrase "act as a substrate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in scientific or technical contexts, particularly in biology or chemistry, to describe a substance that serves as a surface or medium for a reaction or process.
Example: "In this experiment, the enzyme will act as a substrate for the chemical reaction to occur."
Alternatives: "serve as a substrate" or "function as a substrate".
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Synthetic recombinant protein silk did not act as a substrate for cell adhesion or alignment but hydrogels with similar composition supported cell attachment, growth and proliferation.
Depending on composition, calcium crosslinked alginate can act as a substrate for rat marrow cell proliferation and has potential for use as 3D degradable scaffold.
The annealed primers act as a substrate for the Taq DNA polymerase, creating a complementary DNA strand via sequential addition of deoxynucleotides.
In this study, melt-blown thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) nonwovens were used to support the mechanical property to act as a substrate layer.
There was an exception for the H3K4me2 10mer which was used at 10× Kd due to its ability to act as a substrate at 20× Kd (Supplementary Figure 3).
It is noteworthy that our data suggests that carbon filters could act as a substrate for microorganism growth and could also contribute to seeding water downstream, since chlorination did not greatly modify the incoming bacterial community (Fig. 2).
Here we show by simulation and experiments that the free acid substrate, glutamic acid, rather than its monosodium salt can act as a substrate and buffer at the same time.
The grating can act as a substrate for other proteins or compounds, raising the possibility that silk films could be used for implantable biosensors or in drug delivery, with the silk dissolving in the body at a controlled rate to release the drug.
It is known that trehalose may act as a substrate for many microorganisms (Higashiyama 2002).
Microtubules are filamentous proteins that act as a substrate for the translocation of motor proteins.
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We called these proteins 'substrate receptors' that can act as a substrate-recognition subunit of E3 ligase complex or as E3 ligase alone.
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