Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The nonsugar component of a glycoside molecule that results from hydrolysis of the molecule.
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- noun organic chemistry The non-
sugar fragment of aglycoside .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The product will, according to studies, deliver 200-300 times more free or 'aglycone' resveratrol to the blood plasma.
Medindia Health News 2010
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In the fetal study abstract touted by Sarnoff, the authors state that rats given BPA by mouth showed no ill effects: "Oral administration of the same dose did not produce measurable levels of aglycone BPA in fetal tissues."
Jon Entine: End Game on Bisphenol A? Have we reached a tipping point on the science of this ubiquitous chemical? Jon Entine 2011
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(PCC) to give 2-hydroxy-4-methoxybenzaldehyde, the NMR data of which were identical to those of the aglycone, which was obtained after hydrolysis of the glycoside.
Chapter 7 1991
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Synthesis of the aglycone from 2,4-dihydroxybenzoic acid was achieved in three steps.
Chapter 7 1991
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A glycoside daidzin, an aglycone daidzein and an isoflavone puerarin are among compounds identified in the roots.
Chapter 21 1987
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Each variable exon encodes a signal peptide and the amino-terminal aglycone-recognition domain.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Haiyan Huang et al. 2010
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Because the variable exons encode the aglycone-recognition domains, these dynamic evolution of variable exons may be an adaptation of each organisms to its specific environmental niches.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Haiyan Huang et al. 2010
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Nevertheless, they may encode short-form polypeptides containing only the N-terminal signal peptide and the aglycone-recognition domain, but lacking the donor-binding domain and the ER-anchoring transmembrane segment.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Haiyan Huang et al. 2010
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To determine that the detected metabolite was due to modification of quercetin by platelets, untreated platelets (4A inset: plasma control) and quercetin aglycone (4D. ii inset) were examined to confirm the absence of tamarixetin.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Bernice Wright et al. 2010
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O-methyl quercetin (tamarixetin), has been reported to be taken up by erythrocytes The structures of quercetin aglycone and plasma metabolites.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Bernice Wright et al. 2010
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