The phrase "alter its activity" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing changes in behavior, function, or operation of a system, organism, or process.
Example: "The medication is designed to alter its activity in the body to improve overall health."
Alternatives: "modify its function" or "change its behavior."
Thermal fluctuations of an enzyme can alter its activity.
This signal provokes the postsynaptic cell to alter its activity in some way — for example, turning a gene on or off.
Given that CD38 plays many important roles throughout the body, including the immune system, the data are "way too preliminary" to start pursuing drugs that would increase or alter its activity, cautions Frances Lund, a microbiologist at the University of Birmingham in Alabama.
Perlmann, who was born in Czechoslovakia but later became a U.S. citizen, was one of the first to recognize the importance of phosphate groups in the structure of many proteins; she showed that phosphates added to or stripped from a protein can dramatically alter its activity.
Therefore, this blood-specific editing event may prevent the phosphorylation of PARP-10 and alter its activity.
One implication of these findings is that Oct4 may be subject to post-translational modifications which alter its activity.
A software-based tutor, for example, would alter its activities in response to how students perform on tests after using it.
Some metal ions interact with the enzyme surface charge, affecting the ionization of some amino acid residues, changing the enzyme conformation, and rendering it less stable and/or altering its activity.
AMPK is such a sensitive kinase, that once its cellular energy status (AMP ATP) gets altered, its activity will subsequently change.
[t]his "balance depends upon the cost to the government of altering its activity to allow the religious practice to continue unimpeded versus the cost to the religious interest imposed by the government activity". unreliable and not humane, and that the animals, before being sacrificed, are often kept in conditions that produce a great deal of fear and stress in the animal.
Muftuoglu and colleagues also found that acetylation of WRN altered its activity although their findings are somewhat different [17], perhaps due to different DNA substrates or assay methods.
