Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several enzymes that hydrolyze specific ester bonds in phospholipids.
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- noun biochemistry Any of several
enzymes thathydrolyze thephosphate ester bonds ofphospholipids .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In non-chordate inverebrates, opsin is linked via the adaptor protein to an enzyme called phospholipase C, and in chordates and vertebrates, it is linked to a phosphodiesterase enzyme.
Blind Mice vs Behe; the Evolution of Vision - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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But in the new study, the researchers found that after an average of 13 stings a week, beekeepers quickly desensitise to the bees 'attacks, which delivers a large dose of several venoms, including a membrane-busting protein called phospholipase A.
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Essential fatty acids and phospholipase A2 in autistic spectrum disorders.
Autism Research: Breakthrough Discovery on the Causes of Autism MD Mark Hyman 2010
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Essential fatty acids and phospholipase A2 in autistic spectrum disorders.
Mark Hyman, MD: Autism Research: Breakthrough Discovery on the Causes of Autism MD Mark Hyman 2010
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Invertebrates have rhabodomeric cells that use a special version of the photopigment called r-opsin, and activate cells by a particular pathway called a phospholipase-C cascade.
PZ Myers - The Deepest Links (on Evolution) William Harryman 2009
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You may ask how the phospholipase C and phosphodiesterase cascades were put together, these are relatively simple and highly flexible systems cobbled together from proteins with other independent functions and you can mess around with these cascades quite a bit.
Blind Mice vs Behe; the Evolution of Vision - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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You may ask how the phospholipase C and phosphodiesterase cascades were put together.
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The effector enzymes vary—it can be adenylate cyclase, which changes the levels of cyclic AMP, or it can be phospholipase C, which generates other signalling molecules, DAG and IP3.
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The effector enzymes vary—it can be adenylate cyclase, which changes the levels of cyclic AMP, or it can be phospholipase C, which generates other signalling molecules, DAG and IP3.
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The mutation occurs in a gene for phospholipase C-gamma2 PLCG2, an enzyme involved in the activation of immune cells, the investigators found.
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