'mount a response' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it whenever you want to talk about devising or constructing a reply to something, for example: "The debate team had to mount a response to their opponent's argument."
In healthy individuals, the adaptive immune system is responsible for tumour immunosurveillance, through which the host can identify, mount a response to, and destroy tumour cells.
The United States must be aware of the growing threat and mount a response.
Paradoxically, cells rely on secreted proteins to mount a response designed to resist stress-induced damage.
The lesson of Sept. 11 is that we can't wait for an attack, and then mount a response.
Alternatively, inflammation might not occur if invaded cells were mostly dead, and thus unable to mount a response.
The Post reporting leaves little doubt that Trump's refusal to acknowledge Russian sabotage undermines the government's ability to mount a response commensurate with the destructiveness of those intentions.
They needed to find the right adjuvant, a substance that would stimulate the immune system's T-cells to mount a response against the malaria parasites.
They also gave her antiviral medications, which they hoped would stimulate her immune system to mount a response against the rabies virus.
Under the "joint command" structure set up in the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, the federal government and the oil company mount a response to a spill.
Bacteria, endotoxins — which are the toxic byproducts of certain bacteria — and proteins can slip into the blood stream, thereby causing the body's immune system to mount a response.
At this point, the cell needs to mount a response to restore its homeostasis; however, the stress response machinery that it typically relies upon when faced with such challenges has lost its capacity to function.
