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nucleosidase

nucleosidase noun: any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a nucleoside, separating the base and the sugar.

Noun

nucleosidase (plural nucleosidases)

  1. Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a nucleoside, separating the base and the sugar

Forms of nucleosidase

pluralnucleosidases

Origin of nucleosidase

From nucleoside + -ase.

Words formed from nucleosidase

Questions about nucleosidase

What does nucleosidase mean?
Nucleosidase means any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a nucleoside, separating the base and the sugar.
What part of speech is nucleosidase?
Nucleosidase is a noun.
What is the plural of nucleosidase?
The plural of nucleosidase is nucleosidases.

Words near nucleosidase in the dictionary

  1. nucleorhabdovirus
  2. nucleorhabdoviruses
  3. nucleoriboprotein
  4. nucleoriboproteins
  5. nucleoribosomal
  6. nucleosidase
  7. nucleosidases
  8. nucleosidation
  9. nucleosidations
  10. nucleoside
  11. nucleosides

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