Phosphorylysis
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Phosphorylysis is a noun meaning The breakdown of glucose-glucose bonds by the enzyme phosphorylase.
Meaning
The breakdown of glucose-glucose bonds by the enzyme phosphorylase.
Example Sentences
PNP (purine nuceloside phosphorylase) catalyzes the phosphorylysis of inosine, guanosine and their deoxycompounds.
Next phosphorylysis of the deoxy sugar takes place with the formation of 2-deoxy-α-D-glucose phosphate under restitution of the primer.
Besides hydrolysis another way is now known—phosphorylysis. Hydrolysis appears to be the chief means of splitting polysaccharides in digestion, and phosphorylysis the chief means of tissue disintegration of glycogen in animals and fungi and of starch in some plants—for example, in the germinating grains of some species of the pea.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pyrophosphorylysis, phosphorylase, dephosphorylase, glycogenolysis, phospholysis, phosphorylation.
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