"cleaved off" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that has been cut or separated from a larger entity. For example, "The rope was cleaved off in one clean cut".
This amyloid beta is a piece that gets cleaved off and secreted into the extracellular space.
The poly-ubiquitin signal itself is cleaved off and recycled, allowing faster substrate degradation.
Upon illumination the integrin ligand cRGD is cleaved off and cells can no longer adhere on the PEG coating.
The fluorophore group was also effectively cleaved off from the labeled products to accommodate easier MS based analysis.
The monolith was then crosslinked by using a low-toxic polymer that could be cleaved off from the monolith hydrolytically.
Upon refolding, the autoprotease became active and cleaved off its fusion partner, forming an authentic N-terminus.
Low-density lipoprotein particles are taken up by cells and delivered to the lysosome where their cholesterol esters are cleaved off by acid lipase.
The remains indicated that Richard had suffered eight wounds to the head, including a brutal cut that cleaved off a large portion of skull bone.
As the former mega-continent of Pangaea split apart, the evolutionary branches of those species cleaved off from one another.
The protein was pull down by GST tag, then GST was cleaved off and the protein was further purified with gel filtration chromatography.
These basement membrane proteins are characterized by a C-terminal endostatin domain, which can be cleaved off to form a signaling protein.
