"initial building block" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the first or most basic element of something. Example: "In order to fully understand complex mathematical equations, one must first master the initial building blocks of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division."
The first stage generates a six-carbon compound called mevalonic acid from three two-carbon acetate units (derived from the oxidation of fuel molecules e.g., glucose) in the form of acetyl-CoA, the same initial building block used to form biological fatty acids described in the section Fatty acids: Biosynthesis.
Similar O-glycan structures have been reported for human urinary thrombomodulin and represent the initial building block for proteoglycans such as chondroitin sulfate and heparin.
Through provision of some of the native extracellular matrix components of the lung parenchyma these scaffolds may be able to provide an initial building block toward the regeneration of new functional lung tissue.
The initial building block for the biosynthesis of Kdo2-lipid A is UDP- N-acetylglucosamine (UDP-GlcNAc).
The network allows local mobility in a temperature window from ca. 80 °C to 120 °C by shifting the DA equilibrium towards the initial building blocks.
Bioprocess information generated at the process scouting devices (PSDs) scale constitutes the initial building blocks upon which a bioprocess is developed.
Finally, we have shown that some less stable carbon isomers are magnetic in which one can imagine that they are initial building blocks for magnetic nanodiamonds at high pressure.
It is important to note that nanometer-sized pre-nucleation clusters in SBF solutions have been discovered (Dey et al. 2010); those clusters are believed to be the initial building blocks of crystallized CaPO4 [e.g., CDHA (Onuma and Ito 1998)], while the crystallization process itself occurs via intermediate formation of ACP (Fig. 17).
For the bimetallic aerogels fabricated via strategy (I), the initial building blocks of the gel structure are separated NPs of different metals.
We are proposing that the six themes identified through patient interviews in this study can be used as the initial building blocks of a conceptual framework to help understand pre- and post-surgical satisfaction and quality of life in breast surgery patients.
According to Bonissone (2012), a multi-criteria decision making process is followed in order to (1) create the model by pre-selecting the initial building blocks for the assembly and compiling their meta-information, which is an off-line phase, and (2) perform dynamic model assembly, where the best subset of models for a given query is selected on-line, i.e. during runtime.
