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pyruvates

pyruvates is the plural of pyruvate.

Meaning of pyruvate

Noun

pyruvate (plural pyruvates)

  1. Any salt or ester of pyruvic acid.
    • On the other hand, it can be observed that, with small exceptions, the S. pneumonia strains are the only Streptococci equipped with homospermidine biosynthesis and pyruvate oxidation pathways, which have been found to be involved in pathogenicity mechanisms [50 ] and in the counteraction of...2015 September 15, “Assessing the Metabolic Diversity of Streptococcus from a Protein Domain Point of View”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Questions about pyruvates

What is pyruvates the plural of?
Pyruvates is the plural of pyruvate.

Words near pyruvates in the dictionary

  1. Pyrton
  2. pyruric
  3. pyruvaldehyde
  4. pyruvamide
  5. pyruvate
  6. pyruvates
  7. pyruvic
  8. pyruvic acid
  9. pyruvil
  10. pyruvin
  11. pyruvinium

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