carboxylation
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of carboxylation
Example Sentences
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Aside from their practical applications, these findings indicate that reductive carboxylation is not required for the proliferation of CD8+ T cells, as it appears to be for rapidly growing cancer cells.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2023
In the absence of oxygen, cancer cells resort to a very specific survival mechanism: they metabolise the amino acid glutamine as an alternative source of energy through a chemical reaction known as ''reductive carboxylation''.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2023
The inhibitor used by the scientists to block reductive carboxylation is a drug already approved for the treatment of certain cancers.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2023
However, as CO2 levels increase, the capacity of photosynthetic carboxylation to process more CO2 diminishes, lowering the sensitivity of carboxylation efficiency to further CO2-level increases.
From Nature ● Apr. 7, 2020
As atmospheric CO2 concentration increases, carboxylation is stimulated.
From Nature ● Apr. 7, 2020
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