Transaminate (Verb)

Meaning ¹

Change (an amino group) by transferring it from one compound to another.

Classification

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..

Examples

• The enzyme was able to transaminate a specific amino group from one compound to another in the intermediate step of the reaction.
• In this process, pyridoxal phosphate acts as a coenzyme to help transaminate the amino acid.
• Alanine was generated by the transamination reaction that transaminated the amino group to the ketone group.
• Molecular enzymatic evidence supports that the enzyme is known to transaminate all nineteen proteinogenic amino acids to their respective keto acids.
• This process is typically catalyzed by transaminases which are responsible for the transfer of the amino group, thus facilitating transamination reactions.

Hypernyms

• Alter
• Modify

Meaning ²

Undergo transfer from one compound to another; "amino groups can transaminate".

Classification

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..

Examples

• Amino groups can transaminate from one molecule to another through a series of enzyme-catalyzed reactions.
• During nitrogen metabolism, ammonia can transaminate with alpha-keto acids to form amino acids.
• The liver enzyme alanine aminotransaminase helps to facilitate the process by which amino groups transaminate with alpha-keto acids.
• Amino acids are created when amino groups transaminate onto the carbon skeletons of keto acids.
• The transamination reaction allows amino groups to transaminate between different amino acids and keto acids.

Related Words

• Transamination (noun)