glycerophosphodiesterase

noun

Any enzyme (such as a lecithinase) that catalyses the hydrolysis of a glycerophosphodiester

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Meanings

nounglycerophosphodiesterase (plural glycerophosphodiesterases)

plural glycerophosphodiesterases

  1. biochemistryAny enzyme (such as a lecithinase) that catalyses the hydrolysis of a glycerophosphodiester

    As a first application, we have simulated the diffuse scattering produced by alternative TLS refinements of the glycerophosphodiesterase GpdQ (Jackson et al., 2007 ▸ ).

    2015 July 28, Andrew H. Van Benschoten et al., “Predicting X-ray diffuse scattering from translation–libration–screw structural ensembles”, in Acta Crystallographica Section D: Biological Crystallography, volume 71, →DOI
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