glycolate

American  

[glahy-kuh-leyt] / ˈglaɪ kəˌleɪt /

noun

1. a salt or ester of glycolic acid.

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Etymology

Origin of glycolate

First recorded in 1860–65; glycol(ic acid) + -ate ²

Example Sentences

That allowed the researchers to home in on the most efficient recipe for producing glycolate.

From Science Magazine

Erb says he and his colleagues hope to modify their setup further to produce other organic compounds that are even more valuable than glycolate, such as drug molecules.

From Science Magazine

The enzymes convert the CO2 into a molecule called glycolate that can be used as a feedstock for making useful organic products.

From Nature

Ort has developed tobacco plants with chloroplasts that lack glycolate transporters, and so are forced to metabolize the compound in that organelle using the more-efficient pathway.

From Nature

Organisms, such as the bacterium Escherichia coli, have more-efficient reaction pathways for metabolizing glycolate than the complex pathways that evolved in plants.

From Nature