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brassicasterols

brassicasterols is the plural of brassicasterol.

Meaning of brassicasterol

Noun

brassicasterol (countable and uncountable, plural brassicasterols)

  1. A 28-carbon sterol synthesized by several unicellular algae and some terrestrial plants, and sometimes used as a biomarker.
    • However, this leads to the accumulation of unwanted side-products like ergosterol and brassicasterol that cannot be converted to pregnenolone by CYP11A1, due to the presence of a double bond between carbon atoms 20 and 22 in the side-chain of these substrates, resulting in a reduced efficiency of...2015 July 29, Adrian Gerber et al., “Functionalized PHB granules provide the basis for the efficient side-chain cleavage of cholesterol and analogs in recombinant Bacillus megaterium”, in Microbial...

Questions about brassicasterols

What is brassicasterols the plural of?
Brassicasterols is the plural of brassicasterol.

Words near brassicasterols in the dictionary

  1. brassicaceans
  2. brassicaceous
  3. brassicae
  4. brassicas
  5. brassicasterol
  6. brassicasterols
  7. brassicene
  8. brassicenes
  9. brassick
  10. brassicolous
  11. brassidate

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