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gem-diolate

noun

Etymology

From gem-diol + -ate.

Definitions

  1. Any salt of a gem-diol.

    • Following deprotonation of the water molecule by a conserved glutamate residue (Glu146), the resulting hydroxide ion attacks the carbonyl carbon to form a Zn²⁺-bound gem-diolate.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for gem-diolate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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