triphosphatase

English

Etymology

triphosphate +‎ -ase

Noun

triphosphatase (countable and uncountable, plural triphosphatases)

1. (biochemistry) An enzyme that catalyzes the breakdown of triphosphate into a phosphate and a diphosphate through the addition of a water molecule

Hypernyms

• hydrolase
• enzyme
• protein

See also

• triphosphatase on Wikipedia.Wikipedia