TRANSAMINATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does transaminate mean? 

• TRANSAMINATE (verb)
  The verb TRANSAMINATE has 2 senses:

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

2. undergo transfer from one compound to another

  Familiarity information: TRANSAMINATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRANSAMINATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they transaminate    ... he / she / it transaminates   
Past simple: transaminated   
Past participle: transaminated   
-ing form: transaminating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "transaminate" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Verb group:

transaminate (undergo transfer from one compound to another)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Undergo transfer from one compound to another

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

amino groups can transaminate

Hypernyms (to "transaminate" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Verb group:

transaminate (change (an amino group) by transferring it from one compound to another)

Domain category:

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

transamination (the process of transfering an amino group from one compound to another)

 Context examples 

Ornithine is further transaminated to produce glutamate-5-semialdehyde.

(Arginine, Histidine, Glutamate, Glutamine, and Proline Degradation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

First, 3-phosphoglycerate is oxidized and then transaminated to produce 3-phosphoserine.

(Biosynthesis of Glycine and Serine Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Aspartate is then transaminated by aspartate transaminase to exchange its amino group onto alpha-ketoglutarate and be converted into oxaloacetate.

(Catabolic Pathway for Asparagine and Aspartate, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)