pyrophosphorylytic

adjective

Pertaining to pyrophosphorylysis.

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adjectivepyrophosphorylytic (not comparable)
  1. not comparablePertaining to pyrophosphorylysis.

    This reaction is coupled to the pyrophosphorylytic cleavage of ATP.

    1981, The Enzymes: Nucleic acids - Volume 14, Part 1, →ISBN, page 35
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    There seems to be no general way, as yet, by which one can predict whether a reaction will proceed by a 'phosphorylytic or a pyrophosphorylytic split.

    2012, Modern Methods of Plant Analysis, →ISBN

    Thus, many group-transfer reactions, e.g., phosphorylytic, pyrophosphorylytic, and hydrolytic reactions, are useful in the scavenging of transferable groups from foods in the fabrication of essential metabolites suitable for polymer biosynthesis.

    2013, F. M. Burnet, W. M. Stanley, General Virology: Biochemical, Biological, and Biophysical Properties, →ISBN
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