oxaloacetic acid

oxaloacetic acid
A ketodicarboxylic acid and important intermediate in the tricarboxylic acid cycle; the product formed when l-aspartic acid acts as an amine donor in transamination reactions. SYN: ketosuccinic acid, oxosuccinic acid.

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ox·a·lo·ace·tic acid .äk-sə-lō-ə-.sēt-ik- also ox·al·ace·tic acid .äk-sə-lə-.sēt-ik- n a crystalline acid C4H4O5 that is formed by reversible oxidation of malic acid (as in carbohydrate metabolism via the Krebs cycle) and in reversible transamination reactions (as from aspartic acid)

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ox·a·lo·ace·tic ac·id (ok″sə-lo-ə-seґtik) an intermediate in the tricarboxylic acid cycle (q.v.); it is convertible to aspartic acid by a transamination reaction.

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