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Definition of Hydrolase

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Hydrolase

1. One of a class of enzymes (EC Class 3) catalysing hydrolysis of a variety of bonds, such as esters, glycosides, peptides. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Hydrolase

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1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Thus, guanosin-hydrolase splits guanosin, setting free guanin (Jones and Belt); adenosin-hydrolase splits adenosin setting free adenin, (Am- berg and Jones) ..."

2. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"However, the observation that S-adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase declines when ... Since the hepatic content of adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase increases in ..."

3. Nucleic Acids: Their Chemical Properties and Physiological Conduct by Walter Jones (1914)
"Any of the four nucleosides may undergo hydrolysis with the formation of the free bases by :— (7) Guanosine-hydrolase (Jones and Belt). ..."

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