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autohydrolysis

autohydrolysis noun: hydrolysis using water alone (often at high temperatures).

Noun

autohydrolysis (uncountable)

  1. hydrolysis using water alone (often at high temperatures)
  2. hydrolysis of a peptide or enzyme catalyzed by itself
    • FlhB undergoes asparagine-mediated autohydrolysis at N269-P270 [12 ,13 ].2015 August 6, “Weak Interactions between Salmonella enterica FlhB and Other Flagellar Export Apparatus Proteins Govern Type III Secretion Dynamics”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of autohydrolysis

From auto- + hydrolysis.

Questions about autohydrolysis

What does autohydrolysis mean?
Autohydrolysis means hydrolysis using water alone (often at high temperatures).
What part of speech is autohydrolysis?
Autohydrolysis is a noun.

Words near autohydrolysis in the dictionary

  1. autohotel
  2. autohotels
  3. autohybridize
  4. autohybridized
  5. autohydrogenotrophic
  6. autohydrolysis
  7. autohypernym
  8. autohypernyms
  9. autohypernymy
  10. autohyperonymy
  11. autohypnoses

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