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PBG

PBG is the initialism of porphobilinogen.

Meaning of porphobilinogen

Noun

porphobilinogen (countable and uncountable, plural porphobilinogens)

  1. A pyrrole involved in porphyrin metabolism, generated by aminolevulinate and the enzyme ALA dehydratase.
    Synonyms:
    PBG

Questions about PBG

What is PBG the initialism of?
PBG is the initialism of porphobilinogen.

Words near PBG in the dictionary

  1. PBDEs
  2. PBed
  3. PBEM
  4. pBerlin
  5. pbf
  6. PBG
  7. PBGC
  8. PBGM
  9. PBGV
  10. PBGVs
  11. PBH

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Adapted from Wiktionary: PBG (page history and authors); porphobilinogen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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