Meaning of phosphorylysis | Babel Free

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The breakdown of glucose-glucose bonds by the enzyme phosphorylase.

uncountable

Examples

“Besides hydrolysis another way is now known—phosphorylysis. Hydrolysis appears to be the chief means of splitting polysaccharides in digestion, and phosphorylysis the chief means of tissue disintegration of glycogen in animals and fungi and of starch in some plants—for example, in the germinating grains of some species of the pea.”

“Next phosphorylysis of the deoxy sugar takes place with the formation of 2-deoxy-α-D-glucose phosphate under restitution of the primer.”

“PNP (purine nuceloside phosphorylase) catalyzes the phosphorylysis of inosine, guanosine and their deoxycompounds.”

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