nitrilase (English, noun)
expansion: nitrilase (countable and uncountable, plural nitrilases)
Senses:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of enzymes that catalyse the hydrolysis of nitriles to carboxylic acids and ammonia, without the formation of "free" amide intermediates.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: nitrilases
tags: plural