glycolate

[glahy-kuh-leyt]

noun

1. a salt or ester of glycolic acid.

Word History and Origins

Origin of glycolate¹

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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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