nucleosidase
noun
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Medical Definition of nucleosidase
1 : an enzyme that promotes the hydrolysis of a nucleoside
2
: a phosphorylase that promotes reversibly the reaction of a nucleoside with phosphate forming a base and a phosphate of ribose or deoxyribose
— called also
nucleoside phosphorylase
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