inorganic phosphate

collocation in English

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inorganic
adjective
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/ˌɪn.ɔːˈɡæn.ɪk/us
/ˌɪn.ɔːrˈɡæn.ɪk/
not being or consisting of living material, or (of chemical substances) containing no carbon or only small amounts ...
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phosphate
noun[C]
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/ˈfɒs.feɪt/us
/ˈfɑːs.feɪt/
a chemical compound that ...
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At low embryo density, reduced oxygen concentration or the exclusion ofinorganicphosphateenhanced blastocyst development.
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The switch lysine (light blue, labeled ' in') makes contact with theinorganicphosphateby protruding into the nucleotide binding pocket.
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In a group of 25 embryos/drop, excluding glucose and/orinorganicphosphatehad no effect on the blastocyst development (p > 0.05).
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At low embryo density (one to five embryos/drop), reduced oxygen concentration (1-2.5%) or the exclusion ofinorganicphosphatefrom the medium enhances blastocyst development.
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Two-cell block to development of cultured hamster embryos is caused byinorganicphosphateand glucose.
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Enzymatic hydrolysis of the resulting pyrophosphate intoinorganicphosphateconsumes a second high-energy phosphate bond and renders the reaction effectively irreversible.
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However, a large portion of solubleinorganicphosphatewhich is applied to the soil as chemical fertilizer is immobilized rapidly and becomes unavailable to plants.
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The carboxyphosphate then exothermically decomposes into carbon dioxide andinorganicphosphate, at this point making this an irreversible reaction.
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The glucose-1-phosphate is then able to bond with fructose yielding sucrose andinorganicphosphate.
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This reaction is irreversible because the pyrophosphate that is formed is hydrolyzed into twoinorganicphosphatemolecules by the enzyme inorganic pyrophosphatase.
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Different varnish products release varying amounts of calcium,inorganicphosphate, and fluoride ions.
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The enzyme removes 1,4 glycosyl residues from outer branches of glycogen and addsinorganicphosphateto form glucose-1-phosphate.
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The other two areinorganicphosphateand organophosphates.
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Exoribonucleases can use either water to cleave the nucleotide-nucleotide bond (which is called hydrolytic activity) orinorganicphosphate(which is called phosphorolytic activity).
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Some glycosyltransferases catalyse transfer toinorganicphosphateor water.
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Contrary to hydrolytic enzymes, it is a phosphorolytic enzyme, meaning that it usesinorganicphosphate as a cofactor to cleave nucleotide-nucleotide bonds, releasing diphosphate nucleotides.
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In at least one dikinase (pyruvate, phosphate dikinase), one of the acceptors isinorganicphosphate, resulting in diphosphate.
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Kinases are not to be confused with phosphorylases, which catalyze the addition ofinorganicphosphate groups to an acceptor, or with phosphatases, which remove phosphate groups.
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An example of this is glycogen breakdown by glycogen phosphorylase, which catalyzes attack byinorganicphosphateon the terminal glycosyl residue at the nonreducing end of a glycogen molecule.
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