to take away a carboxyl group from (an organic compound) or (of an organic compound) to lose a carboxyl group
decarboxylate in American English
(ˌdikɑːrˈbɑksəˌleit)
transitive verbWord forms: -ated, -ating
Chemistry
to remove the carboxyl group from (an organic compound)
Derived forms
decarboxylation
noun
Word origin
[1920–25; de- + carboxylate]This word is first recorded in the period 1920–25. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: follow-up, fundamentalism, ski jump, tie-in, zipperde- is a prefix occurring in loanwords from Latin (decide); also used to indicate privation, removal, and separation (dehumidify), negation (demerit; derange), descent (degrade; deduce), reversal (detract), or intensity (decompound)
Examples of 'decarboxylate' in a sentence
decarboxylate
Many bacteria species have the ability to decarboxylate substituted cinnamic acids in order to form vanillin.
Junsei Taira, Rin Toyoshima, Nana Ameku, Akira Iguchi, Yasutomo Tamaki 2018, 'Vanillin production by biotransformation of phenolic compounds in fungus, Aspergillusluchuensis', AMB Expresshttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13568-018-0569-4. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Recently, another enzyme encoded by the mammalian immunoresponsive gene 1 (irg1), was found to decarboxylate cis-aconitate to itaconate in vitro.
Kiira S Vuoristo, Astrid E Mars, Stijn van eLoon, Enrico eOrsi, Gerrit eEggink, JohanP.M. Sanders, Ruud A Weusthuis 2015, 'Heterologous expression of Mus musculus immunoresponsive gene 1 (irg1) in Escherichiacoli results in itaconate production', Frontiers in Microbiologyhttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2015.00849/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)