The phrase "affecting the latter" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the second of two previously mentioned subjects or items, indicating that something has an impact on that subject.
Example: "The new policy changes are affecting the latter, leading to significant adjustments in the workflow."
Alternatives: "impacting the second" or "influencing the latter part".
The former gene encodes a proline-rich protein harboring a probable heavy metal-binding domain and some predicted protein-protein interaction motifs; the resistant allele differs from the wild type dominant one by two deletions affecting the latter motifs, and which are thought to be responsible for the allele's determination of non-race-specific resistance (Fukuoka et al. 2009).
From this paper and the previous one, it would appear that ISRIB acts upstream of ATF4 translation and is dependent upon eIF2α-P (but without affecting the latter)?
As far as the mechanism of action is concerned, the literature has been sustaining the direct role of COCs in hsCRP determination by affecting the latter's metabolic and genetic regulation [ 52].
The environment is returned to being the enemy of growth (as if the loss of the former would never affect the latter).
The hydrothermal temperature significantly affected the latter two when the Cu content in the Cu,N-CDs was changed.
Economic relations with individuals and groups from within a third country are part of economic relations with that country; targeting the former necessarily affects the latter.
We show that rapid mixing experiments are better than chemical relaxation experiments, as the statistics of single molecule kinetics affects the latter more than the former.
The first half of this year has seen levels of punctuality not achieved by any operator of the east coast mainline "since records in their current form began", although poor weather affected the latter part of last year.
Justice Rutledge continued: "That faculty cannot ever be wholly imprisoned in words, much less upon such a criterion as what are only technical, what substantial rights; and what really affects the latter hurtfully.
That faculty cannot ever be wholly imprisoned in words, much less upon such a criterion as what are only technical, what substantial rights; and what really affects the latter hurtfully.
One thing that is clear is that the uptick in D.C.I.S. and early-stage cancer diagnoses has not significantly changed late-stage cancer statistics, so if the whole point is to affect the latter that's not happening.
