Definition of Catabolite

1. Noun. (biochemistry) Any substance produced during catabolism ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Catabolite

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Catabolite

1. Product of catabolism, the breakdown of complex molecules into simpler ones. (16 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Catabolite

catabasia
catabasial
catabasion
catabasis
catabatic
catabatic wind
catabiosis
catabiotic
catabolic
catabolic pathway
catabolically
catabolin
catabolise
catabolism
catabolisms
catabolite (current term)
catabolite (gene) activator protein
catabolite gene activator
catabolite gene activator protein
catabolite repression
catabolites
catabolize
catabolized
catabolizes
catabolizing
catacaustic
catacaustics
catachism
catachreses
catachresis

Literary usage of Catabolite

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"More recently, other carbon sources have been found to cause a similar repression, and so new names, such as "metabolic repression" (5) or "catabolite ..."

2. Lippincott's Medical dictionary: A Complete Vocabulary of the Terms Used in by Ryland W. Greene, Joseph Thomas (1906)
"... of tissue material from a higher to a lower plane of specialization or complexity. catabolite (ca-tab'o-lait). A substance resulting from catabolism. ..."

3. A Bibliography on Computational Molecular Biology and Geneticsby Sarah Barron, Matthew Witten, Gongxian Liu by Sarah Barron, Matthew Witten, Gongxian Liu (1992)
"[1685] SALEMME, FR A model for catabolite activator protein binding to supercoiled DNA. Pnc. Nail. Acad. Sci. 79 (1982), 5263. [1686] SALINAS, J., MATASSI, ..."

4. Biotechnology: Plant Nutrition: A Bibliography, January 1988-April 1993 by Janet Saunders (1994)
"... and was subject to catabolite repression by glucose. 247 NAL Call No: 442.8 Z34 Six ondulation genes of nod box locus 4 in Rhizobium meliloti are ..."

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