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oxaloacetate

NOUN
  1. a salt or ester of oxalacetic acid

How To Use oxaloacetate In A Sentence

  • Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase catalyses the carboxylation of PEP to form oxaloacetate.
  • Oxaloacetate plus the acetyl group form the six-carbon citric acid, or citrate.
  • As the name of the enzyme implies, pyruvate is carboxylated to form oxaloacetate.
  • < 1, 10 > (analysis of the activity in the absence and presence of ascorbate the ascorbate requirement cannot be re - placed by tetrahydrofolic acid, dithiothreitol, NADH2 or dithionite to any sig - nificant extent [28]; a-ketoglutarate cannot be replaced by pyruvate and oxaloacetate [43]) [18, 28, 43] Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • The four-carbon succinate undergoes a series of rearrangements to regenerate oxaloacetate.
  • Oxaloacetate, for instance, can be formed from pyruvate, carbon dioxide, and water, with the use of one ATP molecule.
  • A reduction of oxaloacetate does seem likely because both phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase and total malate dehydrogenases were activated under the same stress conditions as those that activated PPDK.
  • The generation of asparate occurs by the standard transamination reactions that interconvert amino acids with a-ketoglutarate to form glutamate and glutamate with oxaloacetate to form aspartate.
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