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guanosinetriphosphatase
Definitions related to guanosine triphosphate phosphohydrolases:
  • (gtpase) Proteins that hydrolyze guanine triphosphate to yield guanine diphosphate. This is a class of proteins that belongs to a family of high energy phosphate hydrolases. Members of this family play major roles in biological signal transduction pathways.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • (gtp phosphohydrolases) Enzymes that hydrolyze GTP to GDP. EC 3.6.1.-.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • (guanosinetriphosphatase) NonEC; family of high energy phosphate hydrolases; unlike ATPases, which are mainly involved in bioenergetics, GTPases are mainly involved in biological signal transduction.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
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