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  • adjective Having three carboxyl groups.

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  • adjective organic chemistry Having three carboxylic groups

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Examples

  • The cycle is therefore also called the tricarboxylic acid cycle.

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  • What evolved here was not the tricarboxylic acid cycle that metabolizes citrate, but simply the means to utilize it via (most likely) an also pre-existing transport system.

    Assessing Fault 2009

  • It also has a complete tricarboxylic acid cycle, and can thus metabolize citrate internally during aerobic growth on other substrates (39).

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  • The Krebs cycle, also known as the citric acid cycle or the tricarboxylic acid cycle, is one of the most important reaction sequences in biochemistry.

    Krebs cycle 2009

  • We analyze the stoichiometry, energetics, and reaction concentration dependence of the reductive tricarboxylic acid (rTCA) cycle as a universal and possibly primordial metabolic core.

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  • Aerobic metabolism of glucose is coupled to oxidative phosphorylation by linking to SCCR, FAD and Complex II through succinate in the tricarboxylic acid cycle

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Alice Y. W. Chang et al. 2009

  • Ischemia-reperfusion injury or treatment with cisplatin in wild-type mice caused inhibition of fatty-acid oxidation, reduction of mitochondrial genes of oxidative phosphorylation, mitochondrial DNA, fatty-acid metabolism, and the tricarboxylic acid cycle.

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  • I. Glycolysis, gludoneogenesis, oxidate phoshphorylation and the tricarboxylic acid cycle.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • Tchawa Yimga M, Leatham MP, Allen JH, Laux DC, Conway T, et al. (2006) Role of gluconeogenesis and the tricarboxylic acid cycle in the virulence of

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Konstantin Kadzhaev et al. 2009

  • : Picric acid is tricarboxylic acid with phenolic group at ortho position.

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