nitrilase

English

Etymology

From nitrile +‎ -ase.

Noun

nitrilase (countable and uncountable, plural nitrilases)

  1. (biochemistry) Any of a class of enzymes that catalyse the hydrolysis of nitriles to carboxylic acids and ammonia, without the formation of "free" amide intermediates.

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