The phrase "assayed the ability of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are evaluating or testing someone's skills or capabilities.
Example: "The researchers assayed the ability of the participants to adapt to new environments."
Alternatives: "evaluated the capability of" or "tested the proficiency of".
To confirm this, we substituted Ser218 to aspartic acid to mimic phosphorylation (S218D) and assayed the ability of the mutant to bind DNA using an electrophoretic mobility shift assay.
We assayed the ability of co-transformant L 61 to degrade lignin using wood meal derived from Japanese cedar.
We assayed the ability of each defensin to downmodulate CD4, CCR5 and CXCR4.
Subsequently, we assayed the ability of the different SUB gSUBmut:EGFP reporters to rescue the sub-1 phenotype.
Therefore we assayed the ability of Treg or TregKIF to bind to ligands of CD62L, VLA-4, and LFA-1 in an in vitro adherence assay (Fig 4a).
We first assayed the ability of DF-1 fibroblasts to support the growth of MVA in comparison with two other permissive cell types, primary CEFs and BHK-21 cells (Figure 1).
Here we developed a co-culture system to systematically assay the ability of 23 stromal cell types to influence the innate resistance of 45 cancer cell lines to 35 anti-cancer drugs.
In vitro chaperone-like assays were used to assay the ability of α-crystallins to protect client proteins from chemical or heat induced aggregation.
Ethanol tolerance test was used in order to assay the ability of the 102 mutations that harboring SPT15 genes.
Cross-streak assays were performed to assay the ability of a Trx-LTTR fusion protein and a cI-LTTR fusion protein to form heterooligomers.
Identification of a pathogenicity factor generally involves making a mutant fungal strain with a non-functioning version of the gene by targeted gene deletion and assaying the ability of the mutant to cause disease.
