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deacylases

deacylases is the plural of deacylase.

Meaning of deacylase

Noun

deacylase (plural deacylases)

  1. Any hydrolase that removes an acyl group by hydrolysis
    • They exhibit a diverse range of functional categories that include porin, transporter, adhesin, lipase, protease, deacylase, pore-forming toxin, and assembly factors [2 ,3 ].2015 December 23, “PredβTM: A Novel β-Transmembrane Region Prediction Algorithm”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Questions about deacylases

What is deacylases the plural of?
Deacylases is the plural of deacylase.

Words near deacylases in the dictionary

  1. deactualizations
  2. deactylase
  3. deactylation
  4. deacyl
  5. deacylase
  6. deacylases
  7. deacylate
  8. deacylated
  9. deacylates
  10. deacylating
  11. deacylation

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