metabolic pathway

noun

1. any of the sequences of biochemical reactions, catalysed by enzymes, that occur in all living cells: concerned mainly with the exchange of energy and chemicals See also Krebs cycle

Example Sentences

Emerging data now show that inhibition of a specific metabolic pathway in infected cells can diminish latent infection and therefore the risk of downstream disease, as reported by researchers from the University of Basel and the University Hospital Basel in the journal Science.

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BGCs are collections of genes that are physically grouped on the chromosome and contribute to a particular metabolic pathway.

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Lead author Alexia Kirby, who is a doctoral student in biology, was responsible for validating and testing the radiotracer across various cell and animal models, while Nicholas Calvert, a doctoral student in chemistry and biomolecular sciences, used carbon isotope labeling to determine the metabolic pathway of the radiotracer in cells.

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Lactate is produced via pyruvate, which is located at the end of a metabolic pathway called glycolysis.

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By comparing gene activity patterns in treated and untreated organoids, the researchers found that cancer-associated mutant Kras greatly boosts the production of cholesterol in organoid cells, and that perhexiline maleate opposes this effect by inhibiting a key cholesterol metabolic pathway regulatory factor called SREBP2.

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