English Explanatory Dictionary

nitrilase

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of a class of enzymes that catalyse the hydrolysis of nitriles to carboxylic acids and ammonia, without the formation of "free" amide intermediates.

Word forms

nitrilase nitrilases

Etymology

From nitrile + -ase.

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