"disrupting element" is a correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It refers to something that causes disturbance or interruption. Example: "The disruptive element in our team was the constant arguing between two members, which affected our productivity."
Following this path, and in contrast to theories that depict stressful, traumatic memories as a "special" or "disrupted" element in the AM system, the system's own basic functioning could explain the negative effects of dealing with stressful events on memory (Rubin et al. 2008b).
For instance, even if an upstream gene undergoes disruptive mutation, its downstream targets might still be activated by alternative routes that do not involve the disrupted element.
TE insertions can actually result in novel specific patterns of gene expression by either acting as regulatory elements or disrupting these elements.
As demonstrated by human transcriptome studies [37], L1 insertions upstream of genes most likely decrease the transcription of nearby genes by disrupting regulatory elements or by functioning as epigenetic regulators.
The PLIF permitted a thorough decompression of the nervous structures without disrupting abdominal elements.
We prioritised 8 variants with bioinformatic evidence to alter splicing by creating cryptic splice sites, interrupting polypyrimidine tract sequences or disrupting regulatory elements involved in splicing.
Detection and explanation of subtle motifs in human genes is very important, since many mutations disrupting these elements may affect gene transcription, splicing or translation with possible severe consequences [ 62].
One possible explanation for the discrepancy between our result and the previous reported Northern blot is that insertion of the gene trap disrupted regulatory element(s) within the first intron of Asxl2.
Early years of EU counter-terrorism cooperation were focused primarily on the "prevent" and "disrupt" elements of the EU strategy.
In most cases, the MITE insertion seemed to act by disrupting a regulatory element of a nearby gene.
