Deamidation
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Deamidation is a noun meaning (organic chemistry) Conversion of an amide to a carboxylic acid.
Meaning
(organic chemistry) Conversion of an amide to a carboxylic acid.
More Meanings
- (biochemistry) The conversion of glutamine, asparagine, glutamine residues in a polypeptide to glutamic acid or aspartic acid by treatment with strong acid, transamidase or deamidase.
Word Forms
- deamidations
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include deaminase, deamidase, diaminase, aminylation, glutaminase, deglutamination.
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