How to Use pyruvate in a Sentence

pyruvate

noun

• To extract energy, cells break down a glucose molecule into two pyruvate molecules.
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 13 May 2026
• Bengals may be affected by heart disease, progressive retinal atrophy and pyruvate kinase deficiency.
  — Lauren Paige Richeson, USA Today, 3 Aug. 2026
• In 2020, the team showed that chemicals found in these vents, such as carbon dioxide and hydrogen, along with nickel and iron minerals common at these sites, could combine to create formate, acetate, and pyruvate.
  — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 11 Nov. 2026
• At first, a very simple pathway might have converted carbon dioxide and hydrogen into more complex carbon-containing compounds such as acetate and pyruvate, and released energy back into the environment.
  — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 11 Nov. 2026
• Oxygen, however, enables further biochemical reactions that break down pyruvate and produce another 30 molecules of ATP.
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 13 May 2026
• Doctors didn’t expect Mia to reach her first birthday because of pyruvate dehydrogenase complex deficiency (PDCD), a rare, genetic disorder often fatal during infancy.
  — Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2026