monoglutamate

M3O1N1O1G2L1U1T1A1M3A1T1E1

noun

Any salt or ester of glutamic acid that has a single glutamate residue

Scrabble 18

Meanings

nounmonoglutamate (plural monoglutamates)

plural monoglutamates

  1. chemistryAny salt or ester of glutamic acid that has a single glutamate residue

    Most upstream in the nicotianamine biosynthetic pathway, glutamate carboxypeptidase 2 (AMP1) releases folate monoglutamate from folate polyglutamate [49 ].

    2015 November 5, “Deciphering Mineral Homeostasis in Barley Seed Transfer Cells at Transcriptional Level”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

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