Definition of interconvert in English:
interconvert
verb ˌɪntəkənˈvəːtˌin(t)ərkənˈvərt
[with object]Cause (two things) to be converted into each other.
oestrogens and androgens are easily interconverted in the laboratory
Example sentencesExamples
- The liver interconverts them easily when needed.
- Those compounds are interconverted in mitochondria by D - 3-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase which was previously described by Wakeman and Dakin in dog liver.
- Furthermore, HCO - 3 and CO 2 are only slowly interconverted through the apparent absence of carbonic anhydrase activity in the general cytosol.
- We note in passing that the timescale of the peptide backbone fluctuations which interconvert open and closed conformations is on the order of ~ 1 ns even for this minimalist elastin model.
- The generation of asparate occurs by the standard transamination reactions that interconvert amino acids with a-ketoglutarate to form glutamate and glutamate with oxaloacetate to form aspartate.
- To illustrate this point, consider a system containing two converting enzymes E 1 and E 2 (for instance, a protein kinase and a phosphatase) that interconvert substrates W and W *.
- These authors used a model of sucrose synthesis in sugar cane culm, comprising 11 reactions interconverting hexose and hexose phosphate species, sucrose, and sucrose phosphate.
- Plato's elements can be interconverted because of the geometric commonalities of their atoms.
- Inorganic sulphur forms are immobilized to organic sulphur, different organosulphur forms are interconverted, and immobilized sulphur is simultaneously mineralized to yield plant-available inorganic sulphur.
- The first are oxidation/reduction reactions that interconvert arsenate to arsenite.
- These two molecules cannot be easily interconverted because of the high energy required to rotate a double bond.
- These isomers are all considered to be interconverted in humans, and may be less hepatotoxic than retinol.
- Slight heating and cooling are enough to interconvert the gel between its liquid and stable forms.
- Therefore it is predicted that the modeled ErbB1-like dimer configuration exists as a subclass among many others, and/or as a dynamic entity that could be interconverted to other dimeric forms.