| 释义 |
metabolite|mɛˈtæbəlaɪt|
[f. prec. + -ite.]
a. Any substance formed from another by metabolism.
b. A substance necessary to metabolism or to a particular metabolic process.
1884Pop. Sci. Monthly XXIV. 770 Urea being a nitrogenous metabolite. 1899J. Cagney Jaksch's Clin. Diagn. vi. (ed. 4) 248 Certain colourless metabolites or chromogens of bilirubin. 1923Jrnl. Physiol. LVII. 248 The increased combustion of sugar is immediately followed by the physiological oxidation of the accumulated fatty acid metabolites. 1946P. H. Mitchell Textbk. Biochem. xii. 322 The modern view of typical cases of biological oxidation is that enzymes catalyze the transfer of H2 from a fuel food (the metabolite) to another substance. 1951M. Abercrombie et al. Dict. Biol. 159 Most metabolites are made by the organism in the course of metabolism; others must be taken in from the environment... Autotrophic organisms need to take in only inorganic metabolites, e.g. water, carbon dioxide, nitrates... Heterotrophic organisms need..a wide range of organic metabolites from the environment. 1965Lee & Knowles Animal Hormones iv. 76 Progesterone appears to be an intermediary metabolite in the formation of adrenal cortical hormones. 1967[see fusidic a.]. 1967M. E. Hale Biol. Lichens iv. 58 Nitrogen is an essential metabolite for synthesizing proteins in both the alga and fungus. 1970G. R. Taylor Doomsday Bk. vi. 130 In the body..DDT tends to convert into similar substances known as DDE and DDD, the three being known..as ‘DDT and its metabolites’. |