The phrase "affecting their function" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how something influences or changes the operation or effectiveness of a system, process, or entity.
Example: "The new policy is affecting their function, leading to decreased productivity among the staff."
Alternatives: "impacting their operation" or "influencing their performance."
The immune cells seem to have entered the tumors to attempt to tackle them as expected, but the patients don't appear to benefit from this, leading the researchers to suspect that smoking might be affecting their function.
Finally, a major question remains: how pathologic stimuli are communicated to the mitochondria, affecting their function and how these organelles in turn orchestrate a cellular response to stress conditions.
Fallopian tubes might look normal on testing but there could be microscopic issues within the tubes affecting their function.
A mutation in this gene should induce the constitutive expression of the other genes without affecting their function (see below).
It has been shown recently that inflammation resulting from bacterial and viral infection activates interferon signaling pathways in taste bud cells, affecting their function in taste transduction.
Because of these sequence and glycosylation variations the exoplasmic K-M region emerges as a highly divergent stretch in mammalian CLC's and is therefore a prime candidate for isoform-specific interactions with extracellular or luminal proteins affecting their function, biosynthesis, degradation and/or sorting.
" THAT is what's affecting their functioning.
To achieve these objectives, three nozzles were first individually tested, in order to identify the main variables affecting their functioning and performance.
Within clinical practice, the physical functioning short forms can provide the medical team with additional information about how the child's condition is affecting their functioning.
Mutations can alter the structure of proteins that subsequently results in affecting their functions, either by gaining a function or losing one.
Major progress has been made in the last decade in identifying genes associated with insecticide resistance and structural changes affecting their functions [ 1- 3].
