CYTOSOL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cytosol mean? 

• CYTOSOL (noun)
  The noun CYTOSOL has 1 sense:

1. the aqueous part of the cytoplasm within which various particles and organelles are suspended

  Familiarity information: CYTOSOL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CYTOSOL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The aqueous part of the cytoplasm within which various particles and organelles are suspended

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

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

cytol; cytoplasm (the protoplasm of a cell excluding the nucleus; is full of proteins that control cell metabolism)

 Context examples 

A glycoprotein with a glycan in the form Glc0-3Man8GlcNAc2 is released from the calnexin cycle, recognised by a mannosidase- like protein EDEM and dislocated from the ER to the cytosol.

(Endoplasmic Reticulum Degradation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Neutrophil cytosol factor 2 (526 aa, ~60 kDa) is encoded by the human NCF2 gene.

(Neutrophil Cytosolic Factor 2, NCI Thesaurus)

Phosphoprotein NFATP, the 'preexisting component' of NFAT present in the unstimulated T-cell cytosol, locates in the nucleus as part of NFAT after activation.

(NF-AT, NCI Thesaurus)

The biosynthesis of fatty acids from this acetyl-CoA cannot take place directly however, since it is produced inside mitochondria while fatty acid biosynthesis occurs in the cytosol.

(Acetyl Group Shuttle Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Internalized parasites escape from the parasitophorous vacuole using secreted pore-forming TcTOX molecule and replicate in the cytosol.

(Chagas Disease Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

At the same time, NOSIII is translocated into the cytosol.

(Nitric Oxide Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

This allele, which encodes neutrophil cytosol factor 2 protein, is involved in the generation of superoxide in neutrophils.

(NCF2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

L-carnitine, the biologically active form of carnitine, is a carrier molecule that transports activated long-chain fatty acids (LCFAs) from the cytosol to mitochondria where fatty acids are oxidized, resulting in ATP production.

(L-Carnitine L-Tartrate, NCI Thesaurus)

The overall result is that NADH is transported into the mitochondria, and can be used to generate 3 ATP per every NADH transported in from the cytosol, a very efficient process.

(Malate-Aspartate Shuttle Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Fatty acids are oxidized inside the mitochondrial matrix but the fatty acids to be oxidized come from the cytosol.

(Mitochondrial Carnitine Palmitoyltransferase Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)