glycolate
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of glycolate
First recorded in 1860–65; glycol(ic acid) + -ate 2
Example Sentences
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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.
From Nature • Apr. 25, 2017
Ort is focused on streamlining the reactions that plants use to break down glycolate.
From Nature • Apr. 25, 2017
This chemical error, known as photorespiration, generates a toxic compound called glycolate that plants must break down.
From Nature • Apr. 25, 2017
Ort suspects that this is because plant cells were still shipping glycolate out of the chloroplast even with the introduction of the improved chemical pathway.
From Nature • Apr. 25, 2017
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 • Apr. 25, 2017
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