Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The univalent group, −COOH, the functional group characteristic of all organic acids.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hypothetical organic radical having the formula COOH.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) The complex radical, CO.OH, regarded as the essential and characteristic constituent which all oxygen acids of carbon (as formic, acetic, benzoic acids, etc.) have in common; -- called also
oxatyl .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun organic chemistry A
univalent functional group consisting of acarbonyl and ahydroxyl functional group (-CO.OH ); characteristic ofcarboxylic acids .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or containing the carboxyl group or carboxyl radical
- noun the univalent radical -COOH; present in and characteristic of organic acids
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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BTW, the system is not awfully wrong: the negative charge on the acidic carboxyl groups is to be expected.
Archive 2008-01-01 Egon Willighagen 2008
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A xenobiotic that has undergone a Phase I reaction is now a new intermediate metabolite that contains a reactive chemical group, e.g., hydroxyl (- OH), amino (- NH2), and carboxyl (- COOH).
Biotransformation 2008
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BTW, the system is not awfully wrong: the negative charge on the acidic carboxyl groups is to be expected.
Why chemistry-rich RSS feeds matter... Egon Willighagen 2008
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Many of the compounds in asphalt are polar since they contain alcohol, carboxyl, phenolic, amine, thiol, and other functional groups.
Asphalt 2008
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Within the hydrophobic environment in the center of the green fluorescent protein, a reaction occurs between the carboxyl carbon of Ser65 and the amino nitrogen of Gly67 that results in the formation of an imidazolin-5-one heterocyclic nitrogen ring system (as illustrated in Figure 2).
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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Secondly, regarding the hyper-IgM syndrome type 2 that affects the carboxyl-terminus of AID and abolishes CSR - do these truncations affect protein stability or is that known?
3 recent reports use evolution to study mechanisms of antibody diversification - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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Chemically, tannins are complex phenolic polymers containing aliphatic and phenolic hydroxyl groups and in some cases, carboxyl groups.
Chapter 4 1994
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An organic chemical compound that contains both an amine group and a carboxyl group; the unit of structure of proteins.
Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991
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The enzyme that facilitates the removal of carboxyl from an amino acid.
Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991
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An organic chemical compound that contains both an amine group and a carboxyl group; the unit of structure of proteins.
Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991
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