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 Hydrolase - Definition 

In biochemistry, a hydrolase is an enzyme that can break a chemical bond by hydrolysis. They are classified as EC 3 in the EC number classification. Peptidases (proteases or proteinases), nucleases and glycosylases are all hydrolases.



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