Definition of Glutamate

1. Noun. A salt or ester of glutamic acid.

Generic synonyms: Salt

Definition of Glutamate

1. Noun. (chemistry) Any salt or ester of glutamic acid. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Glutamate

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Glutamate

1. Major fast excitatory neurotransmitter in the mammalian central nervous system. See: glutamate receptor. Also the excitatory neuromuscular transmitter in arthropod skeletal muscles. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Glutamate

gluphosinate
glurge
glurgy
glushinskite
glusulase
glut
glut itis
gluta-
glutaconate
glutaconic
glutaconic acid
glutaconyl CoA decarboxylase
glutaeal
glutaei
glutaeus
glutamate (current term)
glutamate-ammonia ligase
glutamate-cysteine ligase
glutamate-semialdehyde dehydrogenase
glutamate-tRNA ligase
glutamate acetyltransferase
glutamate aminotransferase
glutamate decarboxylase
glutamate dehydrogenase
glutamate dehydrogenase (NADP+)
glutamate dehydrogenases
glutamate formiminotransferase
glutamate gamma-semialdehyde
glutamate permease
glutamate racemase

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