hydrolase Biochem.
(ˈhaɪdrəleɪz, -eɪs)
[a. F. hydrolase (Battelli & Stern 1921, in Arch. internat. de Physiol. XVIII. 413), f. hydrolysis + -ase.]
Any enzyme which catalyses the hydrolysis of a substrate.
| 1922 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. CXXII. i. 1077 Ferments are divided into three groups..namely hydratases..; hydrolases producing esterification or hydrolysis; and oxydo⁓reductases. 1955 Neilands & Stumpf Outl. Enzyme Chem. xvi. 188 Lipases and phosphatases, being hydrolytic enzymes, logically fall into the group of hydrolases. 1970 W. H. Fishman Metabolic Conjugation & Metabolic Hydrolysis 373 The demonstration of the existence of latent hydrolases in the tadpole tail. |