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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

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

Across those scales, the carboxylation stimulation is amplified by some processes, but diminished by others.

From Nature • Apr. 7, 2020

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