Sentence examples for adenylate. from inspiring English sources
verb
To carry out or induce an adenylation reaction.
The toxin produced by V. cholerae attaches to the intestinal cells, the enterocytes, where it stimulates the membrane enzyme adenylate cyclase; this in turn interferes with the intracellular enzyme 3′,5′-cyclic adenosine monophosphate synthetase (cyclic AMP), thereby disrupting the sodium pump system for movement of water and allowing potassium and bicarbonate to seep out of the cell.
The drug prevents platelet aggregation and release by increasing the concentration of platelet cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) in two ways: by inhibiting an enzyme (phosphodiesterase) that degrades cAMP and by increasing the stimulating effect of prostacyclin on an enzyme (adenylate cyclase) that synthesizes cAMP.
The enzyme adenylate kinase catalyzes the interconversion of the various adenine nucleotides, as shown in [58].
Inosinic acid can be converted to AMP and GMP; these in turn yield the triphosphates (i.e., ATP and GTP) via reactions catalyzed by adenylate kinase [69] and nucleoside diphosphate kinase (see 43a]).
In firefly luminescence, the substance adenosine triphosphate (ATP) initially reacts with firefly luciferase, ionic magnesium, and firefly luciferin to form a complex (luciferase-luciferyl-adenylate) and pyrophosphate.
Enough energy is liberated in the last step to convert the electronic configuration of the luciferase-luciferyl-adenylate complex from a low-energy ground state to a high-energy excited state.
