autohydrolysis

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noun

hydrolysis using water alone (often at high temperatures)

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Meanings

nounautohydrolysis (uncountable)
  1. uncountablechemistryhydrolysis using water alone (often at high temperatures)
  2. uncountablebiochemistryhydrolysis of a peptide or enzyme catalyzed by itself

    FlhB undergoes asparagine-mediated autohydrolysis at N269-P270 [12 ,13 ].

    2015 August 6, “Weak Interactions between Salmonella enterica FlhB and Other Flagellar Export Apparatus Proteins Govern Type III Secretion Dynamics”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

From auto- + hydrolysis.

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