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nucleotidase

nucleotidase noun: any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of a nucleotide to a nucleoside and phosphate.

Noun

nucleotidase (plural nucleotidases)

  1. Any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of a nucleotide to a nucleoside and phosphate

Forms of nucleotidase

pluralnucleotidases

Origin of nucleotidase

From nucleotide + -ase.

Words formed from nucleotidase

Questions about nucleotidase

What does nucleotidase mean?
Nucleotidase means any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of a nucleotide to a nucleoside and phosphate.
What part of speech is nucleotidase?
Nucleotidase is a noun.
What is the plural of nucleotidase?
The plural of nucleotidase is nucleotidases.

Words near nucleotidase in the dictionary

  1. nucleosyntheses
  2. nucleosynthesis
  3. nucleosynthetic
  4. nucleosynthetically
  5. nucleotic
  6. nucleotidase
  7. nucleotidases
  8. nucleotide
  9. nucleotides
  10. nucleotidic
  11. nucleotidyl

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