The phrase "serve as prototype" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to explain that something serves as the pattern or model for something else. For example, "Google's popular email service Gmail served as a prototype for many other companies' email services."
Still, he claims to have been affected only marginally by his time there, mostly through exposure to the Case Study Houses, a numbered series designed by well-known mid-century architects, which were meant to serve as prototypes for affordable, modern living.
They serve as prototypes for the planned upgrade project of the ATLAS muon system.
Structural differences between prokaryotic and human enzymes may be exploited to design specific inhibitors, which may serve as prototypes of anti-fungal and anti-bacterial drugs [28].
Herein, we report the design, synthesis and evaluation of a library of aryl d-glucopyranoside 6-sulfates to serve as prototypes for small molecule T6PP inhibitors.
We also demonstrate, as a proof-of-concept, that these redox-based probes serve as prototypes for the design and development of a new class of inhibitors for phosphatases.
This finding presents a promising series of lead molecules that can serve as prototypes for the treatment of inflammatory related disorder that can mitigate the ulcer inducing side effect shown by other NSAIDs.
Both will serve as prototypes for future real-time diagnostics, which shall be able to deliver processed data in real-time to other systems — especially experiment control — to achieve a possibly better experiment performance.
They serve as prototypes for two distinct classes: the ubiquitin-binding zinc finger (UBZ) and the helical ubiquitin-binding motif (UBM).
While we have recently developed a strategy for attaching arsenicals to flexible polypeptide chains, here we explore the design and implementation of simpler reagents that might serve as prototypes for membrane-permeant derivatives.
Specifically, we here compare three models of rivalry (Fig. 1), which serve as prototypes for broad classes of rivalry models: first, networks of self-exciting units with mutual inhibition (model 1); second, the same network augmented with an adaptation mechanism in the excitatory units (model 2); third, our new approach, two coupled networks that implicitly form a memory state (model 3).
