phosphorylase
noun
phosphorylase is a noun meaning “Any enzyme that catalyzes the production of glucose phosphate from glycogen and inorganic phosphate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-H-O-S-P-H-O-R-Y-L-A-S-E, and it appears about once in every 16 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of phosphorylase is phosphorylases.
What does phosphorylase mean?
noun
- 1
Any enzyme that catalyzes the production of glucose phosphate from glycogen and inorganic phosphate
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of phosphorylase
- phosphorylases plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is phosphorylase?
Phosphorylase appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 121,279th 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).
Where does phosphorylase come from?
From phosphoryl + -ase.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).