carboxykinase
Chemistry and Biochemistry
noun
A kinase that removes a carboxyl group; specifically (in full phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase) an enzyme that brings about the formation of phosphoenolpyruvate by the decarboxylation and phosphorylation of oxaloacetate, as one of the steps in gluconeogenesis in animals and in carbon fixation in plants.
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta.
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