Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An enzyme that catalyzes the addition of water to a substrate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) an enzyme which causes the splitting of a chemical bond with the addition of the elements of water; a hydrolytic enzyme. Formerly called a
hydrolytic ferment .
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- noun biochemistry An
enzyme thatcatalyzes thehydrolysis of asubstrate .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Enzymes either tear apart molecules (called hydrolase) or put them together (called conjugase). {
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Enzymes either tear apart molecules (called hydrolase) or put them together (called conjugase). {
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The region includes genes encoding a CoA-dependent methylmalonate semialdehyde dehydrogenase (dntE), a putative NADH-dependent dehydrogenase (ORF13), and a bifunctional isomerase/hydrolase (dntG).
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Anna Helgadottir et al., “A variant of the gene encoding leukotriene A4 hydrolase confers ethnicity-specific risk of myocardial infarction,” Nature Genetics 38 2006, 68–74.
The $1,000 Genome Kevin Davies 2010
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Sebenarnya gen yang berperan dalam enzim ini masih belum diketahui. α -Arabinosidase merupakan salah satu hydrolase yang membongkar pektin seperti pada PME (pectinmethylesterase) dan PAE (pectin acetylesterase).
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Selain enzim hydrolase di atas, ada gen yang berperan juga dalam proses ripening fruit dan softening fruit, yaitu Expansin.
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A putative novel alpha/beta hydrolase ORFan family in Bacillus.
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For example MG125 white bar in Fig 2 of Glass et al., 2006, is of unknown function, but is a member of the Cof hydrolase family, and has many homologs in a wide variety of bacteria .
Nelson vs Mycoplasma: ORFans redux. - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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A putative novel alpha/beta hydrolase ORFan family in Bacillus.
Nelson vs Mycoplasma: ORFans redux. - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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Using improved fold recognition software, and a larger database of fold family structures, they have found that in Bacillus sp, some related ORFans are members of the of the alpha/beta hydrolase superfamily, and most likely derive from the haloperoxidases Siew et al., 2005.
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