phosphorylytic

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phosphorylytic (not comparable)

  1. (biochemistry) Relating to phosphorylysis.
    • 1997, Christine Foyer, A Molecular Approach To Primary Metabolism In Higher Plants, →ISBN:
      In principal there are two metabolic routes for the degradation of transitory starch: an amylolytic and a phosphorylytic pathway.
    • 2012, Modern Methods of Plant Analysis, →ISBN:
      There seems to be no general way, as yet, by which one can predict whether a reaction will proceed by a phosphorylytic or a pyrophosphorylytic split.
    • 2013, F. M. Burnet, W. M. Stanley, General Virology: Biochemical, Biological, and Biophysical Properties, →ISBN:
      Of particular significance to our discussion has been the recent discovery of the phosphorylytic cleavage of the nucleotide phosphodiesters of RNA.