triphosphatase

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triphosphate +‎ -ase

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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

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