PUTRESCINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does putrescine mean? 

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

1. a colorless crystalline ptomaine with a foul odor that is produced in decaying animal matter

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUTRESCINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A colorless crystalline ptomaine with a foul odor that is produced in decaying animal matter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

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

ptomain; ptomaine (any of various amines (such as putrescine or cadaverine) formed by the action of putrefactive bacteria)

 Context examples 

This allele, which encodes ornithine decarboxylase protein, is involved in the conversion of ornithine to putrescine in the first step of the polyamine biosynthesis pathway.

(ODC1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

The enzyme ornithine decarboxylase produces putrescine from ornithine.

(Biosynthesis of Spermidine and Spermine Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

This species is obligately intracellular, acidophilic, indole negative and utilizes lactulose and putrescine as carbon sources.

(Cronobacter sakazakii, NCI Thesaurus)

Amino-propyl groups from decarboxylated adoMet are progressively newed to putrescine to produce first spermidine and then spermine.

(Biosynthesis of Spermidine and Spermine Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)