The phrase "prevent elongation" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe an action taken to stop something from becoming longer or more drawn out. For example, "The manufacturer took measures to prevent elongation of the rusting process."
The process of elongation is dependent on microtubule polymerization, as was demonstrated by the effect of the microtubule inhibitor nocadazole, which prevented elongation and caused rapid collapse of partially or fully elongated micronuclei (Wolfe, 1978; Kaczanowski et al., 1985).
Our organ-culture results indicated that BMP4 regulates HERS formation via harmonious interactions with its own antagonist, noggin, by preventing elongation and maintaining cell proliferation.
Increasing the concentration of capping protein, which caps barbed ends of actin filaments and prevents elongation, increases the rate of actin-based motility in vivo and in vitro.
It depurinates a nucleotide in 28S ribosomal RNA resulting in a conformational change that prevents elongation factors from associating with the ribosome, thereby irreversibly arresting protein synthesis at the translocation step.
In the absence of glucose, a transcriptional terminator prevents elongation into the structural genes.
TRAP binds to the nascent mRNA and prevents elongation of transcription.
Polymerization is regulated by capping proteins (such as gelsolin) at the plus ends, through the binding to these ends with high affinity and prevents elongation.
Mutation detection reaction mixes for (ii) combined specific primers and probes to amplify both mutated and WT target sequences, plus a WT-specific 3'P-blocked oligonucleotide preventing elongation (PCR clamping).
Such post-initiation regulation could be based on two general classes of regulation mechanisms [ 26]: in one class, transcriptional pausing of RNA polymerase II, poor processivity, or abortive initiation prevents elongation.
The most widely used methods for high-throughput analysis of mRNA degradation is based on transcriptional inhibitors, for example by actinomycin D, which inhibits transcription via binding to single-strand DNA at the transcription initiation complex and preventing elongation by RNA polymerase II.
