The phrase "acting as unit" is not correct in standard written English.
It seems to be a truncated version of a phrase that might mean "acting as a unit" or "acting as one unit."
Example: "The team is acting as a unit to achieve their common goal."
Alternatives: "functioning as a unit" or "operating as one entity."
In addition, we have investigated the extent to which different domains within a protein vary together in ER, as opposed to acting as isolated units whose rates fluctuate independently.
The Hh, Notch, Wnt, and TGF-β signaling pathways, instead of acting as isolated units, may interact through cross-talk to provide tumor cells with an additional mechanism to evade chemotherapy [ 29].
Finally, Pantin patterning always involves a whole behaving organism acting as a unit.
The measured height was consistent with the theoretical estimation, verifying that the WFZ developed upwards through the strata group acting as a unit.
The proposal of the 19th-century botanist Julius von Sachs is generally considered a satisfactory answer to this question; he suggested that the important matter was the existence not of a cell membrane but of a certain amount of cytoplasm surrounding a nucleus and acting as a unit of metabolism, which he called an energid.
In this device the membrane lung and centrifugal pump are combined together, acting as one unit.
It is possible that these genetic clusters correspond to a house or group of closely situated houses and their immediate environs as studies of the distribution of A. aegypti have shown that they tend to be highly spatially clustered with a house typically acting as the unit of clustering (Getis et al. 2003).
Similar to a previous research work on the role of network motifs in information processing [24], we focus on their important roles in acting as functional units in organizing modules.
For example, biased competition is a distinctly spatial operation, with RFs effectively acting as resource units.
In this model, the first repeat from each bundle contributes to the extracellular gate, whereas the second repeat contributes to the intracellular gate, with two helices acting as support units, TM3, TM6 in the N-terminal bundle and TM9, TM12 in the C-terminal bundle.
Trade negotiations are a point where influence and success are achieved by acting as a collective unit, and so competence at the EU level remains in the interest of the UK".
