The phrase "appears to convert to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a transformation or change from one state or form to another, often in a technical or analytical context.
Example: "The data set appears to convert to a more manageable format after applying the new algorithm."
Alternatives: "seems to change into" or "looks like it transforms into".
Patients with more frequent attacks appeared to convert to secondary progressive multiple sclerosis significantly later; five attacks after Year 2 halved the risk of starting to progress.
There he appears to convert a young boy but, having eaten from the Tree of Innocence, he is himself converted to nature, love and the secret of happiness.
BMP4 thereby appears to convert Activin/Nodal signalling into a potent inducer of mesendoderm differentiation, since when combined with Activin or with Activin+FGF2, BMP4 is able to induce differentiation of hESCs in a fully chemically defined medium.
Overall, IGF-1 appears to convert hormonally induced cytotoxicity to a cytostatic outcome.
G. metallireducens appears to convert aromatic compounds to benzoyl-CoA, then to acetyl-CoA via fatty acid oxidation, and then to carbon dioxide via the TCA cycle.
Conversely, the introduction of a non-cleavable PARP1 variant appears to convert the apoptotic phenotype of cells succumbing to FAS ligation into a necrotic one.
The SUR1 Lys single mutation appears to convert the diazoxide pharmacological profile of SUR1 containing KATP channels towards that of a SUR2A containing KATP channel phenotype.
Actin appears to convert these clathrin scaffolding plaques into internalizing structures, often at locations in cells of high transmembrane pressure or tight contact with other cells or extracellular matrix (Saffarian et al. 2009; Collins et al. 2011).
Interestingly, the strongly twisted lines in the initial state appear to convert into the post-flare loops often observed after a flare.
Further, while the 4-HPR plasma concentrations measured in the present investigation were not appreciably different between patients and mice dosed on an equivalent basis, NOD/SCID mice appeared to convert more 4-HPR to 4-oxo-4-HPR while humans preferentially metabolized 4-HPR to 4-MPR (Table 1 and control mice in Figure 4C).
