pyruvate
pyruvate — 名詞
1. a chemical substance that living cells produce when they break down sugar to obt
丙酮酸鹽
丙酮酸的鹽類或酯類
a chemical substance that living cells produce when they break down sugar to obtain energy. It can be converted into other important compounds such as lactate or acetyl-CoA, which the body uses for growth and cell function.
After glycolysis, each glucose molecule is broken down into two molecules of pyruvate.
糖解作用後，每個葡萄糖分子會被分解成兩個丙酮酸鹽分子。
passive: is broken down into pyruvate
As Erik sprints, his muscle cells turn pyruvate into lactate to produce energy without oxygen.
Erik 衝刺時，他的肌肉細胞會迅速將丙酮酸鹽轉換成乳酸，以便在缺氧狀態下持續產生能量。
collocation: turn pyruvate into [compound]
Pyruvate enters the mitochondria and gets converted into acetyl-CoA, a key fuel for the cell.
丙酮酸鹽進入粒線體後會被轉換成乙醯輔酶A，這是細胞的重要燃料。
Adina learned in biology class that pyruvate connects sugar breakdown to the energy cycle inside cells.
Adina 在生物課上學到，丙酮酸鹽是連接糖分分解與細胞能量循環的重要橋樑。
文法句型
pyruvate + verb (singular)
a pyruvate molecule
用法筆記
In scientific writing, pyruvate is most often used as an uncountable noun (e.g., 'Pyruvate is produced during glycolysis'), but it can be countable when referring to individual molecules (e.g., 'two pyruvate molecules').