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elongase

noun

Etymology

From elongate + -ase.

  1. derived from *dlongʰos✻ — “long”
  2. derived from ē-
  3. derived from ēlongātus — “having been stretched out, elongated; prolonged, protracted; having been kept aloof, removed”
  4. inherited from elongat
  5. suffixed as elongase — “elongate + ase”

Definitions

  1. Any enzyme that catalyzes the elongation of an aliphatic chain, but especially one that…

    Any enzyme that catalyzes the elongation of an aliphatic chain, but especially one that elongates a fatty acid

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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