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quinolinate

quinolinate noun: any salt or ester of quinolinic acid.

Noun

quinolinate (plural quinolinates)

  1. Any salt or ester of quinolinic acid.
    • The non-target near-full length hits include those with putative functions to pyruvate dikinases, hypothetical proteins, phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinases, cytochrome p460, CoA substrate specific enzyme activases and quinolinate synthetases, among others.2015 July 21, Christopher R. Penton et al., “Denitrifying and diazotrophic community responses to artificial warming in permafrost and tallgrass prairie soils”, in Frontiers in Microbiology, volume...

Forms of quinolinate

pluralquinolinates

Origin of quinolinate

From quinolinic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).

Questions about quinolinate

What does quinolinate mean?
Quinolinate means any salt or ester of quinolinic acid.
What part of speech is quinolinate?
Quinolinate is a noun.
What is the plural of quinolinate?
The plural of quinolinate is quinolinates.

Words near quinolinate in the dictionary

  1. quinolates
  2. quinolic
  3. quinolin
  4. quinolinamine
  5. quinolinamines
  6. quinolinate
  7. quinolinates
  8. quinoline
  9. quinoline yellow
  10. quinolinedione
  11. quinolinemethanethiol

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