glyceraldehyde love

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A sweet colorless crystalline solid, C3H6O3, that is an intermediate compound in carbohydrate metabolism.

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  • noun organic chemistry, biochemistry The aldotriose 2,3-dihydroxypropanal formed by oxidation of glycerol

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  • noun a sweet crystalline aldehyde formed by the breakdown of sugars

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[glycer(in) + aldehyde.]

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Examples

  • Energy captured in the light reactions in form of ATP and NADPH is used to convert PGA into glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate (G3P) which can be converted to other organic compounds, or using energy from ATP, some is converted into RuBP to continue the cycle.

    Photosynthesis 2009

  • Gapdh (encoding glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase) for normalization.

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  • Western blotting for optineurin (OPTN) and glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH, for loading control) was performed and densitometry was carried out.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Hongyu Ying et al. 2010

  • Western blotting for optineurin (OPTN) and glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH, for loading control) was performed and densitometry was carried out.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Hongyu Ying et al. 2010

  • The reaction is so facile that it would be surprising if it didn't occur given the presence of these molecules (cyanimide, cyanoacetylene, glycolaldehyde, glyceraldehyde, and inorganic phosphate).

    Slashdot 2010

  • (LPL) were determined relative to glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) for each imaging time point (N = 4).

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles William L. Rice et al. 2010

  • A glutamine amidotransferase consisting of the synthase Pdx1 and its glutaminase partner, Pdx2, form a complex that directly synthesizes PLP from ribose 5-phosphate, glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate, and glutamine.

    Journal of Biological Chemistry current issue 2009

  • Filters were probed with 32P-labeled HBVayw genomic DNA to detect HBV sequences and mouse glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) cDNA to detect the GAPDH transcript used as an internal control

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Lie Li et al. 2009

  • As for frequency, Coca-Cola, Wendy's, and AT & T are far more common in the language than glyceraldehyde, placage, and skyphos; yet the latter can be found in dictionaries usurping the space properly belonging to the former, which fulfill Landau's criteria of number, distribution in time and geography, and diversity of source.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 2 1984

  • Siah-1 then carries an enzyme called GADPH (glyceraldehyde

    Top Headlines - Diabetes Health 2010

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