acylphosphatase

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noun

The enzyme acylphosphate phosphohydrolase.

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Meanings

nounacylphosphatase (plural acylphosphatases)

plural acylphosphatases

  1. biochemistryThe enzyme acylphosphate phosphohydrolase.

    This is the case of acylphosphatase from Drosophila melanogaster (AcPDro2).

    2015 April 16, Rafael Zambrano et al., “AGGRESCAN3D (A3D): server for prediction of aggregation properties of protein structures”, in Nucleic Acids Research, volume 43, →DOI

Origin

From acylphosphate + -ase.

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