Phosphometabolite

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any metabolite that contains a phosphate (or similar) group

    "Our study uncovered age-dependent decline in phosphometabolite turnover rates and dynamic energetic rearrangements in aging rat atria with simultaneous phosphotransfer circuit and mitochondrial substrate shuttle deficits hindering ATP cycling that may underlie the vulnerability of the whole energetic system, muscle weakness and electrical instability."

Example

More examples

"Our study uncovered age-dependent decline in phosphometabolite turnover rates and dynamic energetic rearrangements in aging rat atria with simultaneous phosphotransfer circuit and mitochondrial substrate shuttle deficits hindering ATP cycling that may underlie the vulnerability of the whole energetic system, muscle weakness and electrical instability."

Etymology

From phospho- + metabolite.

More for "phosphometabolite"

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.