The phrase "exert their functions" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the performance or application of roles, duties, or responsibilities, often in a professional or technical context.
Example: "In order to achieve optimal results, employees must exert their functions effectively within the team."
Alternatives: "perform their roles" or "carry out their duties."
Genes and proteins do not exert their functions as independent entities but are part of functional protein complexes and signalling pathways.
Our results underscore the power of chromosome conformation capture for the identification of targets of functional DNA elements and raise the possibility that CNCs exert their functions by physical association with defined genomic regions enriched in CNCs.
These results parallel experiments performed in mouse suggesting that PRC2-Ezh2 complexes would exert their functions in proliferative tissues while PRC2-Ezh1 would have a more important role in more differentiated cells13,17.
As shown in Fig. 5, both free and encapsulated DNR were localized in the nuclei of the cells, where they could exert their functions and stop the cell proliferation.
Interestingly, phosphorous-based compounds exert their functions both in the soluble and insoluble in biological systems.
Although long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) predominately reside in the nucleus and exert their functions in many biological processes, their potential involvement in cytoplasmic signal transduction remains unexplored.
More and more evidences from network biology indicate that most cellular components exert their functions through interactions with other cellular components, such as proteins, DNAs, RNAs and small molecules.
It will be interesting to determine whether UL22A forms a complex with UL132 to exert their functions in supporting viral growth during HCMV infection.
They are highly basic heparin-binding proteins of 70 125 amino acids with molecular masses ranging from 6 to 14 kDa which exert their functions by binding specific seven-transmembrane G-protein-coupled receptors [5], [6].
Mature miRNAs are incorporated into the RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC) with the Piwi/Argonaute (AGO) protein family to exert their functions [3], whereas their opposite strands, known as miRNAs*, are scrapped [4], [5].
Here we report the characterization of the other three members of the GH72 family in S. pombe, which exert their functions during vegetative growth and whose expression is cell-cycle regulated.
