"thus function" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to introduce an idea that is based on or developed from a previous idea. For example: "Thus function, the engine works better in colder climates."
We report for the first time that upon differentiation LAMA-84 cells formed proplatelets and produced functional PLPs capable of aggregation and thus function as normal platelets.
The overlap of two TFBS as observed in the ETS⇔CRE motif creates a long DNA sequences that are generally rare in mammalian genomes and could thus function like a prokaryotic system in which each occurrence is functional.
Buttresses tend to be more prevalent on the windward side of the tree and thus function in tension resistance.
Because we rarely self-identify as aggressors, whatever our gender and wherever our place in the social ladder, Han's victims thus function less like effigies of imagined enemies and more like avatars of ourselves: they body forth extreme versions of familiar feelings of hurt and outrage against various social injustices.
It was clear that at the high end of things – the shows that could make New York critics dizzy with pleasure, and thus function as lures for a wealthy-New-Yorker-magazine-type demographic to get cable – people were getting lost.
They thus function as indispensable software for cultivating personhood.
States of approbation, Hutcheson indicates, thus function as signs of an agent's benevolence, indicating its presence.
Thus, function U ( z ) is a nondecreasing function, since U ′ ( z ) ≥ 0 when J ( x ) is of type (A).
Actinobacteria came into focus of being potential caries-associated pathogens and could, together with the established Streptococcus mutans and lactobacilli thus function as caries indicator species.
We speculate that such differences in energetics, coupled with different promoter architectures, serve as the basis for generating receptor-specific promoter occupancy and thus function.
