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- noun chemistry A
salt orester ofaminolevulinic acid .
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aminolevulinic + -ate
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O, Semenkovich C. F (1999) Respiratory uncoupling induces delta-aminolevulinate synthase expression through a nuclear respiratory factor-1-dependent mechanism in HeLa cells.
PLoS Biology: New Articles Derek P. Narendra et al. 2010
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In contrast, the expression of delta-aminolevulinate synthase (alas2), which is the enzyme required for the first step in heme biosynthesis, was found to be decreased from 26 hpf (n = 41 of 41; 100\%) to 32 hpf (n = 50 of 54; 93\%) (
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