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sphingolytic

sphingolytic adjective: that cleaves the phosphodiester bonds in sphingomyelin.

Adjective

sphingolytic (not comparable)

  1. that cleaves the phosphodiester bonds in sphingomyelin

Questions about sphingolytic

What does sphingolytic mean?
Sphingolytic means that cleaves the phosphodiester bonds in sphingomyelin.
What part of speech is sphingolytic?
Sphingolytic is an adjective.

Words near sphingolytic in the dictionary

  1. sphingolipidomic
  2. sphingolipidomics
  3. sphingolipidoses
  4. sphingolipidosis
  5. sphingolipids
  6. sphingolytic
  7. sphingomonad
  8. sphingomonads
  9. sphingomyelin
  10. sphingomyelinase
  11. sphingomyelinases

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