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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are a limiting step" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing factors or elements that hinder progress or act as obstacles in a process or system.
Example: "In the development of new technologies, regulatory approvals are a limiting step that can delay innovation."
Alternatives: "are a bottleneck" or "are a hindrance."
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All these results taken together suggest that either the dehydration of fatty acid intermediates are a limiting step in the E. coli fatty acid biosynthesis machinery, or that the recombinant dehydratase domains used in this study are also capable of catalyzing thioester hydrolysis of the final products.
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Usually, one of the steps is a limiting step that controls the well-production rate.
Conversion of estrone to estradiol is a limiting step in the process.
In the nanoimprint lithography (NIL) process the mould release is a limiting step.
Purification of lectins is a limiting step for its uses in the area of biotechnology.
Design of heat transfer equipments for SBCRs is a limiting step in sizing and scale up of them.
However, the enzymatic conversion of ginsenoside Rd to F2 is a limiting step in the hydrolytic pathway because of the relatively low activity for Rd.
There is a poor understanding of the impacts of trace elements (TEs3) on substrate hydrolysis, which is a limiting step for energy production during AD.
Until recently the assembly of amplified or cloned sequences into large and complex designs was a limiting step in plant synthetic biology and biotechnology.
Different methods include different mechanisms of action of antioxidants, while during extraction of antioxidants, solubility of the antioxidant in reaction media can be a limiting step since there is always an insoluble fraction of material [2].
However, the enzymatic conversion of ginsenoside Rd to F2 is a limiting step in the hydrolytic pathway because SS-BGL exhibits approximately 15-fold lower activity for ginsenoside Rd than Rb1.
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