Meanings
nounquinolinate (plural quinolinates)
plural quinolinates
- chemistryAny salt or ester of quinolinic acid.
The non-target near-full length hits include those with putative functions to pyruvate dikinases, hypothetical proteins, phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinases, cytochrome p460, CoA substrate specific enzyme activases and quinolinate synthetases, among others.
2015 July 21, Christopher R. Penton et al., “Denitrifying and diazotrophic community responses to artificial warming in permafrost and tallgrass prairie soils”, in Frontiers in Microbiology, volume 6, →DOI
Origin
From quinolinic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
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