OXALOACETATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A salt or ester of oxalacetic acid

Synonyms:

oxalacetate; oxaloacetate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("oxaloacetate" is a kind of...):

salt (a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal))

Aspartate and asparagine are catabolized into oxaloacetate and the Kreb's cycle in a fairly direct pathway for amino acids with four carbons.

(Catabolic Pathway for Asparagine and Aspartate, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)