phosphorolysisn.
/ˌfɒsfəˈrɒlᵻsɪs/, U.S. /ˌfɑsfəˈrɑləsəs/ Biochemistry.
A hydrolytic reaction in which a chemical bond is broken and an inorganic phosphate group is attached to one of the atoms previously linked.
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1937 Enzymologia 2 160 Phosphorolysis is an enzymic process.
1946 Nature 23 Nov. 746/2 It was suggested that the coenzyme in muscle, while taking up two hydrogen atoms in the pyridine nucleus through the addition of free phosphate, undergoes a phosphorolysis.
1970 R. W. McGilvery Biochemistry xv. 296 Glycogen is mainly degraded by a simple phosphorolysis of the 1 → 4 glucosidic bonds to form glucose-1-phosphate.
1992 C. A. Smith & E. J. Wood Biosynthesis vi. 132 Adenylylation and phosphorolysis are catalysed by the same adenylyltransferase.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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