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carboxylation

American  
[kahr-bok-suh-ley-shuhn] / kɑrˌbɒk səˈleɪ ʃən /

noun

  1. the process of carboxylating.


Etymology

Origin of carboxylation

carboxyl + -ation

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Reductive carboxylation acts directly on the generation of metabolites, small chemical elements that modify histones, to influence DNA packaging and to prevent accessibility to longevity genes.

From Science Daily Sep. 20, 2023

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

To investigate the role of reductive carboxylation, the scientists inhibited this mechanism in CAR-T cells in mouse models of leukemia and multiple myeloma, two blood 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

To work out the global fertilization effect, the carboxylation sensitivity is multiplied by the yearly increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration, which is becoming larger over time.

From Nature Apr. 7, 2020

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