adduct

IPA: ˈædʌkt

noun

  • (chemistry) The product of an addition reaction.

verb

  • (transitive, physiology) To draw towards a center or a middle line.
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Examples of "adduct" in Sentences

  • In that case CH3O2 reacts with NO2 to form an adduct CH3O2NO2 .
  • These researchers reported that at the non-permissive temperature, the cell lost the histone H2A-ubiquitin adduct.
  • DNA radioactivity was essentially in a single different adduct base, different from the normal bases present in DNA.
  • With extraordinary effort I can move my right hand a little and can adduct my left arm some six inches across my chest.
  • It takes the masses from CE-MS and compares to an in-house metabolite database, and of course takes into account common adduct products and isotopes.
  • These bases can be chemically modified in a number of ways, including by alkylation, in which an alkyl group (or "adduct") is transferred onto a guanine base.
  • At that time Alex was studying the role of mono-ubiquitination of histones (for the histone-ubiquitin adduct H2A known also as protein A24 or uH2A, see above).
  • Researchers speculate that this results when ellagic acid forms adduct (from Latin, “drawn toward”) with DNA, thus masking binding sites to be occupied by the carcinogens.
  • The adduct "stores" CH3O2, but the bond between the CH3O2 and the NO2 moities a convenient way of designating the molecular units is weak, and collisions can break it, thus the tight loop.

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