BIOSYNTHESIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does biosynthesis mean? 

• BIOSYNTHESIS (noun)
  The noun BIOSYNTHESIS has 1 sense:

1. production of a chemical compound by a living organism

  Familiarity information: BIOSYNTHESIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIOSYNTHESIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Production of a chemical compound by a living organism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

biogenesis; biosynthesis

Hypernyms ("biosynthesis" is a kind of...):

synthesis (the process of producing a chemical compound (usually by the union of simpler chemical compounds))

Derivation:

biosynthetic (of or relating to biosynthesis)

 Context examples 

Biosynthesis of N-glycans begins on the cytoplasmic face of the ER membrane with the transferase reaction of UDP-GlcNAc and the lipid-like precursor P-Dol (dolichol phosphate) to generate GlcNAc a1-PP-Dol.

(N-Glycan Biosynthesis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Mycophenolate stops T-cell and B-cell proliferation through selective inhibition of the de novo pathway of purine biosynthesis.

(Mycophenolate mofetil, NCI Thesaurus)

Although the exact mechanism through which naftifine hydrochloride exerts its effect is unknown, it appears to selectively inhibit the enzyme squalene 2,3-epoxidase, thereby inhibiting the biosynthesis of sterol.

(Naftifine Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes nitric-oxide synthase, brain protein, is involved in nitric oxide biosynthesis from L-arginine and molecular oxygen.

(NOS1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a role in nucleoside triphosphate biosynthesis.

(NME1 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a role in methionine biosynthesis.

(MTR Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is involved in folate metabolism and methionine biosynthesis.

(MTHFR Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

A number of different genes were activated in both plants, but a set of metabolic genes involved in phenylpropanoid (flavonoid) biosynthesis were highly activated in response to infection.

(Ancient defence strategy continues to protect plants from pathogens, University of Cambridge)

Alendronic acid binds to and inhibits the activity of farnesyl pyrophosphate synthetase, an enzyme involved in terpenoid biosynthesis.

(Alendronic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes arachidonate 15-lipoxygenase protein, plays a role in leukotriene biosynthesis.

(ALOX15 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)