Meanings
- uncountableThe breakdown of glucose-glucose bonds by the enzyme phosphorylase.
PNP (purine nuceloside phosphorylase) catalyzes the phosphorylysis of inosine, guanosine and their deoxycompounds.
2013, Chris H. De Bruyn, Purine Metabolism in Man-IV, →ISBN2 more examples
Besides hydrolysis another way is now known—phosphorylysis. Hydrolysis appears to be the chief means of splitting polysaccharides in digestion, and phosphorylysis the chief means of tissue disintegration of glycogen in animals and fungi and of starch in some plants—for example, in the germinating grains of some species of the pea.
1943, Henry Ernest Sigerist, American Review of Soviet Medicine - Volume 1, page 512Next phosphorylysis of the deoxy sugar takes place with the formation of 2-deoxy-α-D-glucose phosphate under restitution of the primer.
2005, K. F. Gotlieb, A. Capelle, Starch Derivatization: Fascinating and Unique Industrial Opportunities, →ISBN
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