substrate Definition
sub·strate (sub′strāt′)
noun
- substratum
- Biochem. a substance acted upon, as by an enzyme
- Biol., Bacteriology medium ()
substrate Usage Examples
Converse of object
insulate: With this technique, a metallic bridge on an insulating substrate is carefully stretched by mechanical bending.
Preposition: for
enzyme: However, the substrate for the enzyme was unknown.
Adjective modifier
- neural: Mechanisms of pain and the neural substrates of learning and memory will be covered.
- calcareous: It tolerates a wide range of soil pH, being found on both mildly acidic and calcareous substrates.
- uncoated: Material beyond the interface between the uncoated substrate and coating has fragmented in a non-uniform single concentric area.
- sapphire: In this work a sapphire substrate was used and it is believed that ordered nucleation occurred.
- metallic: The experiments involve loading and spreading glass gobs on flat metallic substrates.
- dielectric: Furthermore, by using high dielectric constant substrates the slot antenna can be used at the various mobile communication bands.
Modifies a noun
- specificity: However, the substrate specificity of the family has restricted their use to a more significant level.
- phosphorylation: Acetate is produced as the end product of a metabolic pathway that generates ATP by substrate level phosphorylation.
- oxidation: Lecture 18: Bioenergetics [ 1 ] - substrate oxidation.
- deprivation: The idea of substrate deprivation is good and important for neuronopathic Gaucher's disease as it can get into the brain.
- molecule: This is compared to a turnover rate of 118 substrate molecules per second in solution.
- adhesion: It gives superb substrate adhesion; greater than 10,000 psi.
Noun used with modifier
- silicon: These alpha particles were caused by the decay of thorium, a trace element in the silicon substrate.
- mica: HOPG ( highly orientated pyrolytic graphite ) and mica substrates when analyzed by ambient AFM appear to show perfect atomic arrays.
- peptide: These interactions appear to play a crucial role in ordering the activation segment that in turn provides the peptide substrate recognition site.
- semiconductor: Integrated Circuit Electronic components fabricated on a semiconductor substrate.
- peat: Around bog pools there may sometimes be patches of 7150 Depressions on peat substrates of the Rhynchosporion.
- kinase: The structure proved most informative and provided a basis for understanding kinase substrate recognition and catalysis [ 3 ] .
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