CATALYSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does catalyse mean? 

• CATALYSE (verb)
  The verb CATALYSE has 1 sense:

1. change by catalysis or cause to catalyze

  Familiarity information: CATALYSE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CATALYSE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they catalyse    ... he / she / it catalyses   
Past simple: catalysed   
Past participle: catalysed   
-ing form: catalysing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Change by catalysis or cause to catalyze

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

catalyse; catalyze

Hypernyms (to "catalyse" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Domain category:

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

Another proteolytic enzyme, enteropeptidase, is associated with the brush border of enterocytes; this enzyme catalyses the conversion of trypsinogen into trypsin which, in turn, can activate a number of other pancreatic zymogens.

(Pancreatic Proteolytic Enzymes, NCI Thesaurus)

Any substance that inhibits lipooxygenase, an enzyme that catalyses the dioxygenation of polyunsaturated fatty acids in lipids.

(Lipooxygenase Inhibitor, NCI Thesaurus)

Pemetrexed binds to and inhibits the enzyme thymidylate synthase (TS), which catalyses the methylation of 2'-deoxyuridine-5'-monophosphate (dUMP) to 2'-deoxythymidine-5'-monophosphate (dTMP), an essential precursor in DNA synthesis.

(Pemetrexed, NCI Thesaurus)

Pemetrexed binds to and inhibits the enzyme thymidylate synthase (TS) which catalyses the methylation of 2'-deoxyuridine-5'-monophosphate (dUMP) to 2'-deoxythymidine-5'-monophosphate (dTMP), an essential precursor in DNA synthesis.

(Pemetrexed disodium, NCI Thesaurus)

Epac1 then catalyses GTP-loading on Rap2B, which leads to PLC-e activation.

(Phospholipase C-Epsilon Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Once there, they catalyse a reaction that transforms a passive molecule into a potent anticancer agent, explains Professor Jesús Santamaría of the University of Zaragoza.

(Scientists successfully deliver “Trojan horse” catalysts into cancerous tumour cells to destroy them from within, Universities of Granada)

Any substance that inhibits cytidine triphosphate synthetase, an enzyme that catalyses the rate-limiting step in the synthesis of CTP.

(Cytidine Triphosphate Synthetase Inhibitor, NCI Thesaurus)

An enzyme that catalyses the cleavage of inorganic phosphate non-specifically from a wide variety of phosphate esters and having a high (greater than 8) pH optimum.

(Alkaline Phosphatase, NCI Thesaurus)

Intracellular CA II catalyses the formation of these ions.

(Collecting Duct Acid Secretion Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

CRE Recombinase catalyses site-specific recombination between two 34 base pair loxp sites and maintains the phage genome as a monomeric unit-copy plasmid in the lysogenic state.

(CRE Recombinase, NCI Thesaurus)