phosphatase

See also: Phosphatase

English

Etymology

phosphate +‎ -ase

Noun

phosphatase (plural phosphatases)

1. (biochemistry) Any of several enzymes that hydrolyze phosphate esters, and are important in the metabolism of carbohydrates, nucleotides and phospholipids, and in the formation of bone.

Derived terms

• alkaline phosphatase
• antiphosphatase
• autophosphatase
• bisphosphatase
• dephosphatase
• exophosphatase
• holophosphatase
• metallophosphatase
• monophosphatase
• organophosphatase
• polyphosphatase
• pseudophosphatase

 

Translations

an enzyme that hydrolyzes phosphate esters

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 磷酸酶 (zh) (lín suān méi)

• Czech: fosfatáza f
• Finnish: fosfataasi
• French: phosphatase (fr)
• German: Phosphatase f
• Italian: fosfatasi (it) f
• Portuguese: fosfatase f
• Spanish: fosfatasa
• Swedish: fosfatas (sv) n
• Vietnamese: photphataza

See also

• kinase

Further reading

• phosphatase on Wikipedia.Wikipedia