Acetamidase

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any amidase that acts on an acetamide unit

    "The first equivalent system in mycobacteria, the acetamide-inducible system based on the Mycobacterium smegmatis (Msmeg) endogenous acetamidase promoter [13 ], was developed as late as in 1997."

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"The first equivalent system in mycobacteria, the acetamide-inducible system based on the Mycobacterium smegmatis (Msmeg) endogenous acetamidase promoter [13 ], was developed as late as in 1997."

Etymology

From acetamide + -ase.

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