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phosphoribosylaminoimidazolesuccinocarboxamide synthase

phosphoribosylaminoimidazolesuccinocarboxamide synthase noun: an enzyme in purine biosynthesis that uses ATP and aspartate to convert CAIR into SAICAR, helping cells produce the building blocks for DNA, RNA, and ATP.

phosphoribosylaminoimidazolesuccinocarboxamide synthase: an enzyme in purine biosynthesis that uses ATP and aspartate to convert CAIR into SAICAR, helping...
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Noun

phosphoribosylaminoimidazolesuccinocarboxamide synthase (uncountable, abbreviation SAICAR synthase)

  1. An enzyme in purine biosynthesis that uses ATP and aspartate to convert CAIR into SAICAR, helping cells produce the building blocks for DNA, RNA, and ATP.
    • Crystals of phosphoribosylaminoimidazolesuccinocarboxamide synthase (EC 6.3.2.6) from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae were grown by the vapor diffusion hanging-drop technique, using ammonium sulfate as the precipitant.1992, A. I. Grebenko, V. M. Levdikov, V. V. Barynin, W. R. Melik-Adamyan, A. N. Myasnikov, Crystallization and preliminary X-ray investigation of phosphoribosylaminoimidazolesuccinocarboxamide...

Forms of phosphoribosylaminoimidazolesuccinocarboxamide synthase

abbreviationSAICAR synthase

Origin of phosphoribosylaminoimidazolesuccinocarboxamide synthase

From phosphoribosylaminoimidazolesuccinocarboxamide + synthase

Questions about phosphoribosylaminoimidazolesuccinocarboxamide synthase

What does phosphoribosylaminoimidazolesuccinocarboxamide synthase mean?
Phosphoribosylaminoimidazolesuccinocarboxamide synthase means an enzyme in purine biosynthesis that uses ATP and aspartate to convert CAIR into SAICAR, helping cells produce the building blocks for DNA, RNA, and ATP.
What part of speech is phosphoribosylaminoimidazolesuccinocarboxamide synthase?
Phosphoribosylaminoimidazolesuccinocarboxamide synthase is a noun.

Words near phosphoribosylaminoimidazolesuccinocarboxamide synthase in the dictionary

  1. phosphoribosylaminoimidazole
  2. phosphoribosylaminoimidazole carboxylase
  3. phosphoribosylaminoimidazole synthetase
  4. phosphoribosylaminoimidazolecarboxamide formyltransferase
  5. phosphoribosylaminoimidazolesuccinocarboxamide
  6. phosphoribosylaminoimidazolesuccinocarboxamide synthase
  7. phosphoribosylate
  8. phosphoribosylated
  9. phosphoribosylation
  10. phosphoribosylations
  11. phosphoribosylformylglycinamidine

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