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- adjective organic chemistry Of or pertaining to
ketoglutaric acid or its derivatives
Etymologies
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From ketone + glutaric
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It has included the biological functions of vitamin B1, oxidative phosphorylation, the reductive carboxylation of ketoglutaric and pyruvic acids, the photochemical reduction of pyridine nucleotides in photosynthesis, condensing enzyme - which is the key enzyme of the Krebs citric acid cycle, polynucleotide phosphorylase and the genetic code.
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