Medical term:
diphosphatase
pyrophosphatase
[pi″ro-fos´fah-tās]any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of central pyrophosphate linkages.
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py·ro·phos·pha·tase
(pī'rō-fos'fă-tās),Any enzyme catalyzing the hydrolysis of a pyrophosphate bond between two phosphoric groups, leaving one on each of the two fragments, for example, inorganic pyrophosphatase, NAD+ p. (cleaves NAD, etc., to mononucleotides), ATP pyrophosphatase (cleaves inorganic pyrophosphate from ATP, leaving AMP).
See also: flavin adenine dinucleotide.
See also: flavin adenine dinucleotide.
Synonym(s): diphosphatase
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py·ro·phos·pha·tase
(pī'rō-fos'fă-tās)Any enzyme cleaving a pyrophosphate bond between two phosphoric groups, leaving one on each of the two fragments.
Synonym(s): diphosphatase.
Synonym(s): diphosphatase.
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py·ro·phos·pha·tase
(pī'rō-fos'fă-tās)Any enzyme cleaving a pyrophosphate bond between two phosphoric groups.
Synonym(s): diphosphatase.
Synonym(s): diphosphatase.
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