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WHAT DOES TCA CYCLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Citric acid cycle

The citric acid cycle — also known as the tricarboxylic acid cycle, or the Krebs cycle, — is a series of chemical reactions used by all aerobic organisms to generate energy through the oxidation of acetate derived from carbohydrates, fats and proteins into carbon dioxide and chemical energy in the form of adenosine triphosphate. In addition, the cycle provides precursors of certain amino acids as well as the reducing agent NADH that is used in numerous other biochemical reactions. Its central importance to many biochemical pathways suggests that it was one of the earliest established components of cellular metabolism and may have originated abiogenically. The name of this metabolic pathway is derived from citric acid that is consumed and then regenerated by this sequence of reactions to complete the cycle. In addition, the cycle consumes acetate and water, reduces NAD+ to NADH, and produces carbon dioxide as a waste byproduct. The NADH generated by the TCA cycle is fed into the oxidative phosphorylation pathway. The net result of these two closely linked pathways is the oxidation of nutrients to produce usable chemical energy in the form of ATP.

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Translator English - Chinese

TCA循环
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ciclo TCA
570 millions of speakers

English

TCA cycle
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

TCA चक्र
380 millions of speakers
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دورة TCA
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ЦТК
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ciclo TCA
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

টিসিএ চক্র
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cycle de TCA
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kitaran TCA
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Translator English - German

TCA-Zyklus
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

TCAサイクル
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TCA 사이클
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Siklus TCA
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TCA chu kỳ
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TCA சுழற்சி
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टीसीए चक्र
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Translator English - Turkish

TCA devri
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Translator English - Italian

ciclo TCA
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Translator English - Polish

cykl TCA
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Translator English - Ukrainian

ЦТК
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ciclul TCA
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του κύκλου TCA
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TCA -siklus
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Translator English - Swedish

TCA-cykeln
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Translator English - Norwegian

TCA syklus
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TCA CYCLE»

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Marks' Basic Medical Biochemistry
I. OVERVIEW OF THE TRICARBOXYLIC ACID CYCLE The tricarboxylic acid ( TCA) cycle is frequently called the Krebs cycle because Sir Hans Krebs first formulated its reactions into a cycle. It is also called the citric acid cycle because citrate ...
Michael A. Lieberman, Allan Marks, Alisa Peet, 2012
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An Introduction to Agricultural Biochemistry
In plants, the importance of TCA cycle intermediates in fatty acid and isoprenoid synthesis is less clear. It has been suggested that mitochondrial acetyl- CoA is hydrolysed by acetyl-CoA hydrolase to free acetate, which diffuses from the ...
J.M. Chesworth, T. Stuchbury, J.R. Scaife, 1998
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Cell and Molecular Biology: Concepts and Experiments
The Tricarboxylic Acid (TCA) Cycle Once formed, acetyl CoA is fed into a cyclic pathway, called the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle, where the substrate is oxidized and its energy conserved. Other than succinate dehydrogenase, which is bound  ...
Gerald Karp, 2009
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Medical Biochemistry: Pearls of Wisdom
CHAPTER 10 TCA Cycle and Oxidative Phosphorylation Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Where is pyruvate dehydrogenase located in the cell? Pyruvate dehydrogenase is located in the mitochondrion. What role does pyruvate dehydrogenase ...
Duane C. Eichler, Duane Eichler, 2006
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Understanding Normal and Clinical Nutrition
The TCA Cycle Acetyl CoA enters the TCA cycle, a busy metabolic traffic center. The TCA cycle is a circular path, but that doesn't mean it regenerates acetyl CoA. Acetyl CoA goes one way only—down to two carbon dioxide molecules and a ...
Sharon Rady Rolfes, Kathryn Pinna, Ellie Whitney, 2011
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Amino Acids and Proteins for the Athlete: The Anabolic Edge, ...
The basic energy process of the TCA cycle is the energy-producing oxidation of acetyl-CoA (an ester of coenzyme A) through a series of intra-mitochondrial reactions. The acetyl-CoA that enters the Krebs cycle comes from several sources ...
Mauro G. Di Pasquale, 2007
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Functional Metabolism: Regulation and Adaptation
Carbon input into the TCA cycle comes from a C2 component (acetyl-CoA) and one or several C4 or C5 inputs (often the carbon skeletons of amino acids) that are processed within the cycle to produce the C4 oxaloacetate that condenses with ...
Kenneth B. Storey, 2005
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Understanding Nutrition
oxaloacetate (OKS-ah-low-AS-eh-tate): a carbohydrate intermediate of the TCA cycle. 210 Chapter 7 TaBLe 7-2 review of energy-Yielding nutrient endpoints Yields energy? Yieldsfat stores? nutrient Yields amino acids Yields glucose? and  ...
Eleanor Whitney, Sharon Rady Rolfes, 2012
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Biochemistry
The tricarboxylic acid cycle (TCA cycle, also called the Krebs cycle or the citric acid cycle) plays several roles in metabolism. It is the final pathway where the oxidative metabolism of carbohydrates, amino acids, and fatty acids converge, their ...
Richard A. Harvey (Ph. D.), Richard A. Harvey, Denise R. Ferrier, 2011
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Textbook Of Biochemistry
B. TCA Cycle as a Cyclic Pathway TCA cycle consists of eight sequential reactions. It is begins with condensation of a four carbon oxaloacetate (OAA) molecule with an acetyl CoA molecule (2-carbon) to form a six carbon citrate molecule ...
Puri, 2005

6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TCA CYCLE»

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Grade-dependent metabolic reprogramming in RCC
Normally pyruvate produced by glycolysis is converted to oxaloacetate and fed into the TCA cycle as the major source of cellular energy. Tumour cells show ... «ScienceBlog.com, Jul 15»
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Ecophysiology of an uncultivated lineage of Aigarchaeota from an …
Digested cDNA was purified with Ampure SPRI beads, followed by 10 cycles of PCR ..... Transcription of TCA cycle genes were high (RPKM >10 000), which is ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
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New Metabolic Mechanisms Discovered that Regulate the …
... environment, which regulates the activity of TCA cycle, and the synthesis of UDP-Glc-Nac - the compound necessary for post-translational protein modification. «Scicasts, Mar 15»
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Genetics and the future of medicine
Fatty acids are broken down in the liver to ketones, some of which drive what is called the TCA cycle to provide the energy to drive gluconeogenesis and the rest ... «ABC Online, Feb 13»
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Closing The Loop
Cyanobacteria's TCA cycle includes the enzymes 2-oxoglutarate ... Cyanobacteria have a complete tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle after all, Donald A. Bryant and ... «Chemical & Engineering News, Dec 11»
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Low-carb diets alter glucose formation by the liver
In the weight-stable group, who consumed carbohydrates as a significant proportion of their diet, the TCA cycle alone provided sufficient energy to drive glucose ... «EurekAlert, Oct 08»

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