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amorphadiene

amorphadiene noun: the bicyclic sesquiterpene (1R,4R,4aS,8aR)-1-isopropenyl-4,7-dimethyl-1,2,3,4,4a,5,6,8a-octahydronaphthalene which is an intermediate in the production of artemesinin.

Noun

amorphadiene (uncountable)

  1. The bicyclic sesquiterpene (1R,4R,4aS,8aR)-1-isopropenyl-4,7-dimethyl-1,2,3,4,4a,5,6,8a-octahydronaphthalene which is an intermediate in the production of artemesinin
    • Libraries of structured ribosome binding sites and RNAse binding sites were combinatorially inserted into the intergenic regions of 2- and 3-protein operons to improve amorphadiene biosynthesis.2015 June 27, Tian Tian, Howard M. Salis, “A predictive biophysical model of translational coupling to coordinate and control protein expression in bacterial operons”, in Nucleic Acids Research...

Questions about amorphadiene

What does amorphadiene mean?
Amorphadiene means the bicyclic sesquiterpene (1R,4R,4aS,8aR)-1-isopropenyl-4,7-dimethyl-1,2,3,4,4a,5,6,8a-octahydronaphthalene which is an intermediate in the production of artemesinin.
What part of speech is amorphadiene?
Amorphadiene is a noun.

Words near amorphadiene in the dictionary

  1. amorously
  2. amorousness
  3. amorousnesses
  4. amorph
  5. amorpha
  6. amorphadiene
  7. amorphas
  8. amorphean
  9. amorpheans
  10. amorphene
  11. amorphenes

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