Esterification of Vitamin A by the Human Placenta Involves Villous Mesenchymal Fibroblasts Vincent Sapin, Samira Chaïb, Loïc Blanchon, Marie-Cécile Alexandre-Gouabau, Didier Lémery, ...

More information: Jifang Zhang et al, Joule‐Heated Interfacial Catalysis for Advanced Electrified Esterification with High Conversion and Energy Efficiency, Advanced Materials (2024).

The authors identified the gene responsible for esterification of the carotenoid lutein in bread wheat as Xanthophyll acyl-transferase (Xat), located on chromosome 7 of the wheat D genome (bread ...

Esters are formed by the condensation reaction between an alcohol and a carboxylic acid. This is known as esterification. In a condensation reaction, two molecules join and produce a larger ...