"were distal from" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe a physical distance between two points or objects. Example: The two cities were distal from each other, but connected by a major highway.
Interestingly a large proportion of the binding sites were distal from the TSS, with 37% (1052) located at >25 kb distally in the intergenic region and 26% (722) located >25 kb in the intragenic regions.
These aged niche cells were distal from the germarial anterior tip, which is the usual location of niche cells in young germaria (white triangles, n = 87 germaria).
All of the IFP backbone fission sites discovered using laboratory evolution were distal from the BV-binding site, suggesting that IFP fission and fusion near this chromophore binding site is disruptive to fragment complementation.
Low outliers, JeffNH,I28A(0)/ JeffNH,WT 0) < 1, indicating enhanced subnanosecond mobility of apo I28A versus apo WT, were distal from the mutation site and occurred in the linker, the PPIase domain catalytic pocket, and the flexible PPIase loop (H64 R80) "capping" the catalytic pocket.
We hypothesize that these differential effects result from interactions of the synthetic ligands with aspects of the D1 receptor that are distal from the ligand binding domain.
The north of the Isukasia terrane is distal from the Kapisilik terrane and has only rare growth of ∼2690 Ma metamorphic zircon and no 2980 2950 Ma metamorphic zircon.
Amino acid position 103 is distal from the RBS, forms part of the trimer interface, and is unlikely to affect receptor specificity (fig. S8).
Rather than target active sites, these studies have demonstrated that targeting PSP/PTP protein (substrate/regulatory) interaction sites, which are distal from the active sites, are highly viable and suitable drugs targets.
As a result, the urinary proteins not only reflect the conditions of the kidney and the urogenital tract, but also those of other organs that may be distal from the kidney, as at least 30% of the urinary proteins are not originally from the urogenital tract [5], [6].
As a result of these experiments, we propose that the role of K151 in the assembly of dodecameric Pdx1 does not depend upon the neighbouring residues in the final assembled structure, rather that its interaction partners during the assembly must be distal from its final position, possibly even on adjacent monomers of the dodecamer.
The residues that interact with Globo H are distal from the enzymic active site.
