carboxylase
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of carboxylase
Example Sentences
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The team found that this process depends on a mitochondrial enzyme called pyruvate carboxylase.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 20, 2026
"Acetyl-CoA carboxylase can drive the balance between storing lipids versus breaking down those lipids and feeding them into the citric acid cycle for energy," said Thaxton.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 15, 2024
Instead of using rubisco, bundle sheath cells in this ring use the enzyme phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase, which doesn't bind oxygen, to capture CO2 in a four-carbon compound.
From Nature ● Apr. 25, 2017
This step is carried out by a non-rubisco enzyme, PEP carboxylase, that has no tendency to bind O2.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
PEP carboxylase attaches an incoming carbon dioxide molecule to the three carbon-molecule PEP producing oxaloacetate, a four-carbon molecule.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
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