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- noun organic chemistry Any
phospholipid based onglycerol
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From glycero- + phospho- + lipid
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[14], a pivotal metabolite with multiple roles of providing the carbon backbone for glycerophospholipid synthesis, glycolysis or gluconeogenesis, and transporting reducing equivalents from the cytosol to the mitochondria for oxidative phosphorylation A putative GK has been annotated in the P. falciparum genome database (PlasmoDB accession number PF13_0269).
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