pyrophosphorylytic

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pyrophosphorylytic (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to pyrophosphorylysis.
    • 1981, The Enzymes: Nucleic acids - Volume 14, Part 1, →ISBN, page 35:
      This reaction is coupled to the pyrophosphorylytic cleavage of ATP.
    • 2012, Modern Methods of Plant Analysis, →ISBN:
      There seems to be no general way, as yet, by which one can predict whether a reaction will proceed by a 'phosphorylytic or a pyrophosphorylytic split.
    • 2013, F. M. Burnet, W. M. Stanley, General Virology: Biochemical, Biological, and Biophysical Properties, →ISBN:
      Thus, many group-transfer reactions, e.g., phosphorylytic, pyrophosphorylytic, and hydrolytic reactions, are useful in the scavenging of transferable groups from foods in the fabrication of essential metabolites suitable for polymer biosynthesis.