The phrase "alter around" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It seems to be a misinterpretation or a combination of words that do not typically go together.
Example: "We need to alter around the design to make it more user-friendly." (This would be better phrased as "alter the design.")
Alternatives: "change" or "modify".
Growth of urban centres world-wide has been so dramatic over the past 100 200 years that many natural habitats have been much altered around large cities.
As always, the propagandists were attentive: foreign analysts who track the use of Photoshop on North Korean state images say that official pictures of Kim are often altered around his ears, possibly to mask some sort of blemish.
The baseline case is first investigated to comprehend the behaviour of the microchannel reactor, then microstructural design and operating parameters are methodically altered around the baseline conditions to explore the optimum values.
(They are believed to have three children). As always, the propagandists were attentive: foreign analysts who track the use of Photoshop on North Korean state images say that official pictures of Kim are often altered around his ears, possibly to mask some sort of blemish.
Upon binding the target molecule, the dielectric environment is altered around the surface of the metal film.
Both bone formation and bone resorption were altered around colonized screws.
Basement membrane has been shown to be altered around DCIS [ 6, 27], and loss of hemidesmosomes has also been reported in DCIS tissue [ 27].
The typical structure of muscle fibers was altered around the larvae, with inflammatory cell reactions, represented mainly by lymphocytes, macrophages, and plasma cells.
It seems that the chemical environment of these residues is clearly sensitive to phosphorylation suggesting that tertiary structure of the SH3 domain is likely altered around the phosphorylated tyrosines.
