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diphosphatase

noun

Etymology

From diphosphate + -ase.

  1. derived from phosphate
  2. prefixed as diphosphate — “di + phosphate”
  3. suffixed as diphosphatase — “diphosphate + ase”

Definitions

  1. Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of the diphosphate of a specific nucleotide or…

    Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of the diphosphate of a specific nucleotide or other biochemical compound

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for diphosphatase. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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