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- noun Plural form of
thioester .
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Others suggest that the asparagus smell is created by other chemical compounds called thioesters.
Documenting Reality Barky 2010
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Ketone bodies are generated by fatty acid beta-oxidation, a process involving a mitochondrial oxido-reductase superfamily, with fatty acid-CoA thioesters as substrates.
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An efficient method was developed for the production of disulfide bond containing proteins with C-terminal thioesters.
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[11] and catalyze the activation of various fatty acids by converting them into fatty acyl-CoA thioesters
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Garima Khare et al. 2009
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