The phrase "as a structural role" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the function or purpose of something within a particular structure or system.
Example: "In this organization, teamwork is essential as a structural role that supports collaboration and innovation."
Alternatives: "in a structural capacity" or "as a functional role".
Binding of chymase to heparin is likely to have a storage as well as a structural role within the mast cell granule, whereas binding of chymase to heparan sulfate may have physiological significance after degranulation.
This finding suggests that zinc may play a catalytic role in sugar substrate binding, as well as a structural role.
COMP interacts with collagen and is suggested to have a role in regulating fibril assembly as well as a structural role for maintaining the mature collagen network [ 17].
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.02372.016 The reduction of Itg signaling and Lam localization in Tsp4b-deficient embryos suggests that Tsp4b has both a functional role in muscle adhesion and attachment as well as a structural role in ECM assembly at the MTJ.
Similarly, CMG-1, which encodes a protein with coiled-coil domains, was observed to target to an intracellular vesicular compartment and may play as well a structural role since it has been postulated that this gene may be implicated in the regulation of capillary formation in an in-vitro model of endothelial cell morphogenesis [ Bell et al., 2001].
The walls themselves would have held most of the museum's mechanical equipment as well as playing a structural role.
While a structural role as a half-cystine provides a stability basis for possible selective pressure, it is less clear why this residue is conserved as a free cysteine (although free buried thiols can limit protein functional half-life).
Glucose in addition to a structural role, functions as a signal molecule in both hexokinase dependant and independent pathways [48].
Repetitive sequences with a structural role (such as satellite DNA) need also be transcriptionally silenced.
This physical characteristic may facilitate weaker binding of the two strands during either transcription or replication processes, and is classically found in the non-coding regions with a structural role such as centromeres or replication origins [ 16, 17].
rad54∆ rad8-LD and rad54∆ rad8-HD had similar levels of sensitivity, which was almost as pronounced as rad54∆ rad8∆, suggesting there may be a structural role or function for the HIRAN domain even in the absence of a catalytic activity.
