The part of the sentence "characterize its role" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the role or purpose of something in a particular context. For example, "We need to better understand and characterize the role of this new technology in our organization."
We therefore decided to choose one of the identified negative regulators in our screen to further characterize its role in IL-1β secretion.
Vitamin D has since been studied in several clinical trials to characterize its role in respiratory infections.
Further work on this protein will be required to further characterize its role and to elucidate its role in virulence.
The timing and pattern of spib expression prompted us to characterize its role during primitive myelopoiesis in Xenopus tropicalis.
Therefore, we tired to clone an ABF gene from trifoliate orange, and functionally characterize its role in dehydration/drought tolerance.
We developed a novel gene set based on this network's topology and applied the GSAS metric to characterize its role in patient survival.
While the role of Nb in forming precipitates has been well characterized, its role in a solid solution is less well understood due to the difficulty of obtaining quantitative experimental data.
Here, we have performed an extensive mutational analysis of the HCF-1 Basic region and characterized its role in G1-phase progression and association with the Sin3 HDAC.
Although the role of WASP in lymphocytes and myeloid cells is well characterized, its role on megakaryocyte (MK) development is poorly understood.
In this study, we identified a putative MYC2 transcription factor in N. attenuata (NaMYC2) and characterized its role in defense response regulation using reverse genetic, transcriptomic and untargeted/targeted metabolomic approaches.
Although the role of WASP in lymphocytes and myeloid cells is well characterized, its role in the development of megakaryocytes (the bone marrow cells that gives rise to platelets) is poorly understood, in part because WAS-knockout mice models exhibit only mild thrombocytopenia and have platelets of a normal size.
