The phrase "act as accessory" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal contexts or discussions about roles and responsibilities, particularly when referring to someone who aids or contributes to an action or crime.
Example: "In this case, the defendant was found to act as accessory to the crime, assisting the principal offender in planning the robbery."
Alternatives: "serve as an accomplice" or "function as a supporter".
Apart from their function in locomotion, the tube feet act as accessory gills.
During osteoclastogenesis, mature lymphocytes may act as accessory cells in the absence of a functional DAP12 protein.
The ability of DCs to act as accessory cells for T cell stimulation in a one-way mix lymphocyte reaction (MLR) was compared in a [3H]thymidine incorporation assay as described [29].
Harpins constitute a class of phytobacterial Type III Secretion System (T3SS) components that are readily secreted by bacteria in culture media and are thought to act as accessory proteins for effector translocation during the host-pathogen interaction [15].
Carotenoid function is perhaps best understood in photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes, where carotenoids dissipate excess energy and radicals from excited oxygen and (bacterio chlorophyll molecules, physically structure the photosynthetic reaction center and act as accessory light-harvesting pigments [3] [5].
It is possible that the ori-B sequences act as accessory units in the strand displacement process, after replication initiation at the A2 and A1 origins.
A year ago, the agency proposed policing only a subset of those apps: ones that use supplemental attachments to transform a mobile platform into a medical device (such as AliveCor's EKG app) and others that act as accessories to an already regulated medical device (such as MIM Software's app).
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Macrophages not only serve as the primary defense barrier in the innate immune response, but also act as important accessory cells in the adaptive immune response15.
Here, we explore the potential for PCD to act as an accessory to microbial bet-hedging strategies that utilize stochastic phenotype switching.
