The phrase "and serves as a marker of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something functions as a sign or indicator of a particular quality, condition, or characteristic.
Example: "The color red often serves as a marker of danger in various contexts, such as traffic signs and warning labels."
Alternatives: "and acts as an indicator of" or "and functions as a sign of".
Much as Sox9, Noggin is expressed in digit condensations and serves as a marker of endochondral differentiation40.
Today the butcher shop is gone, but a plaque commemorates the spot – and serves as a marker of a time before Condesa's current reinvention as a swish hangout.
PARP is one of the main cleavage targets of activated caspases and cleaved PARP facilitates cellular disassembly and serves as a marker of cells undergoing apoptosis [40].
Similarly, increased APP immunoreactivity within axons represents a defect in axonal transport and serves as a marker of axonal injury resulting from cytoskeletal breakdown and calcium influx that interrupts axoplasmic flow and subsequent accumulation of organelles [36].
Cleavage separates the PARP amino-terminal DNA binding domain (24 kD) from the carboxy-terminal catalytic domain (89 kD) [40] and serves as a marker of cells undergoing apoptosis [41].
Consistent with the C3 and C5a ELISA data, increased levels of the C3 beta chain, which is not proteolytically processed and serves as a marker for total C3 levels, and iC3b, which is derived from the proteolysis of the C3 alpha chain and serves as a marker of complement activation, were detected in BAL collected from mice inoculated with H5N1 VN/1194.
Therefore hypoadiponectinemia serves as a marker of adipose tissue dysfunction and the metabolic syndrome [ 7, 8].
Therefore, LC3 serves as a marker of the autophagosome formation.
EGFP, thus, serves as a marker of transfection efficiency.
Allelic imbalance at 17p13.3 (YNZ22) serves as a marker of poor prognosis in breast cancer.
Thus, ECAT serves as a marker of traffic exhaust, primarily diesel exhaust (Sahu et al. 2011).
