The phrase "activate itself" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where something is designed to initiate or turn on its own without external input.
Example: "The system is programmed to activate itself when it detects a power surge."
Alternatives: "turn on automatically" or "initiate on its own."
In addition to its proteolytic activity, MMP-3 can activate itself and other MMPs [ 5] such as MMP-1.
Boy Scout's honor, absolute vow of truth, trust me, I'm really not kidding here, may my thumb cleave to the ball of my mouse, and my capslock key activate itself randomly when I'm typing passwords, and like that.
"After we have achieved historic turnout in 2008 and 2012, especially in the African-American community, I will consider it a personal insult — an insult to my legacy — if this community lets down its guard and fails to activate itself in this election," Obama said.
But the real question, Mr. Quatremer said, is whether the European Union is competent or not, "and at what point should the E.U. activate itself?" Fabrice Pothier, the director of Carnegie Europe, the Brussels center for the Carnegie Endowment, said that the ash problem grew slowly and was not at the start thought to be so long-lasting.
Since thought cannot activate itself as thinking, Deleuze says it must suffer violence if it is to awaken and move.
Because now when the code pinged that domain, it returned that it was registered, and therefore the ransomware would never activate itself!
Goldbeter also posited a catalytic function for cyclin activation of MPF, without the positive feedback loop whereby MPF activates itself.
In response to unfolded proteins, IRE1 activates itself 24,25.
But at least one much anticipated April 1 news event activated itself in reliable fashion: The Fleet Street April Fools' hoax.
CASP3 activates itself as well as CASP6, 7 and 9 by proteolytic cleavage and amplification of the signal for the execution of apoptosis.
Here, we report a new transcriptional regulation system in which an ATF that is designed to upregulate a target gene also activates itself.
