Definitions
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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
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The cycle is therefore also called the tricarboxylic acid cycle.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1953 - Presentation Speech 1954
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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
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It also has a complete tricarboxylic acid cycle, and can thus metabolize citrate internally during aerobic growth on other substrates (39).
Assessing Fault 2009
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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
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We analyze the stoichiometry, energetics, and reaction concentration dependence of the reductive tricarboxylic acid (rTCA) cycle as a universal and possibly primordial metabolic core.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2010
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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
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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.
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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
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: Picric acid is tricarboxylic acid with phenolic group at ortho position.
LearnHub Activities 2008
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