Sentences with phrase «as hydroxylation»

The first phase of estrogen detoxification by the liver is known as hydroxylation.

Ascorbate (vitamin C) is a reducing sugar (has a reactive ene - diol structure) that is involved in biochemical processes, such as hydroxylation of proline and lysine utilized in the formation of collagen and healthy connective tissue.

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This particular enzyme has the ability to catalyze the hydroxylation of L - tyrosine toL - DOPA and further oxidize L - DOPA to dopaquinones which are considered as boosters of melanogenesis.

Interestingly, levels of BR precursors upstream of C - 22 hydroxylation were decreased in bsl1 - 1 inflorescences rather than accumulated as might be predicted for a simple block in a biosynthetic pathway.