单词 | octopine |
释义 | octopinen. Biochemistry. An amino acid of the opine group, C9H18N4O4, found in the tissues of some cephalopods and lamellibranch molluscs and also synthesized by plant cells infected by certain strains of the crown gall pathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Cf. nopaline n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > substance > amino acids > [noun] tyrosine1857 oxyproline1910 octopine1928 Tyr1932 1928 Chem. Abstr. 22 3705 Fraction III was sep[arate]d..into histidine, guanidine, cytosine and a new base, C9H18N4O4, which was named octopine. 1957 A. Meister Biochem. Amino Acids i. 44 Octopine..may be considered as the hydrogenated Schiff base resulting from condensation of pyruvic acid and arginine. 1986 M. Kogut tr. H. G. Schlegel Gen. Microbiol. iv. 151 The integrated plasmid DNA is also responsible for the ability of the cells to make new enzymes for the synthesis of the amino acids octopin and nopalin, the so-called opines. 1998 Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions 11 429 Octopine and nopaline strains of Agrobacterium tumefaciens differ in their ability to induce tumors on Nicotiana glauca. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). octopineadj. rare. = octopean adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Cephalopoda > [adjective] > relating to or like that of an octopus octopus1875 octopodan1890 octopean1896 octopine1914 octopian1922 octopic1968 1914 G. K. Chesterton Flying Inn 248 The Captain prepared to swing himself on to one of the octopine branches [of a tree]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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