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nitrilase

noun

Etymology

From nitrile + -ase.

Definitions

  1. Any of a class of enzymes that catalyse the hydrolysis of nitriles to carboxylic acids…

    Any of a class of enzymes that catalyse the hydrolysis of nitriles to carboxylic acids and ammonia, without the formation of "free" amide intermediates.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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