Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A substance produced by the process of catabolism.

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  • noun biochemistry Any substance produced during catabolism

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[catabol(ism) + –ite.]

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Examples

  • Bob had recently come from the National Institutes of Health, where he and Ira Pastan had discovered the role of cyclic AMP in catabolite repression in E. coli.

    Martin Chalfie - Autobiography 2009

  • The cyclic AMP receptor protein (CRP, also called catabolite gene activator protein or CAP) plays a key role in metabolic regulation in bacteria and has become a widely studied model allosteric transcription factor.

    Journal of Biological Chemistry current issue D. T. Gallagher 2009

  • The same research team at Loma Linda, California, conducted a similar study recently to see if the anticipation of laughter that was shown to boost immune systems could also reduce the levels of three stress hormones: cortisol ( "the stress hormone"), epinephrine (adrenaline), and dopac, a dopamine catabolite (brain chemical which helps produce epinephrine).

    Therese Borchard: 9 Ways Humor Heals 2009

  • Specifically, Dr. Berk reported that the anticipation of a happy laughter experience lowers three stress hormones: cortisol (a steroid hormone), epinephrine (also known as adrenaline), and dopac (a major catabolite of dopamine).

    Printing: Emerging from the Bush/Cheney Cloud to Face PPPTSD and Learned Helplessness 2008

  • Specifically, Dr. Berk reported that the anticipation of a happy laughter experience lowers three stress hormones: cortisol (a steroid hormone), epinephrine (also known as adrenaline), and dopac (a major catabolite of dopamine).

    Emerging from the Bush/Cheney Cloud to Face PPPTSD and Learned Helplessness 2008

  • Note that cellulose is degraded to glucose through the concerted action of multiple enzymes controlled by an induced-catabolite repressed system.

    Chapter 8 1979

  • Cortisol (termed "the steroid stress hormone"), epinephrine (also known as adrenaline) and dopac, (the major catabolite of dopamine), were reduced 39, 70 and 38\%, respectively (statistically significant compared to the control group).

    Health News from Medical News Today 2009

  • First, TFs with small regulons correspond to a class of FFLs caused by the hierarchical regulation of groups of operons, mostly associated to catabolite repression.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Francisco M. Camas et al. 2008

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