GTPase
noun
GTPase is a noun meaning “Any of a large family of hydrolase enzymes that bind to the nucleotide guanosine triphosphate (GTP) and hydrolyze it to guanosine diphosphate (GDP)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-T-P-A-S-E, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of GTPase is GTPases.
What does GTPase mean?
noun
- 1
Any of a large family of hydrolase enzymes that bind to the nucleotide guanosine triphosphate (GTP) and hydrolyze it to guanosine diphosphate (GDP).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of GTPase
- GTPases plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is GTPase?
GTPase appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 107,757th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
GTPase in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense type of hydrolase enzyme:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | GTPase |
| German | GTPase |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does GTPase come from?
From GTP + -ase.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).