ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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

  1. (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.

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include deaminase, deamidase, diaminase, aminylation, glutaminase, deglutamination.

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