CATALYSIS (catalyses)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: catalyses   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does catalysis mean? 

• CATALYSIS (noun)
  The noun CATALYSIS has 1 sense:

1. acceleration of a chemical reaction induced the presence of material that is chemically unchanged at the end of the reaction

  Familiarity information: CATALYSIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CATALYSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Acceleration of a chemical reaction induced the presence of material that is chemically unchanged at the end of the reaction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

catalysis; contact action

Context example:

of the top 50 commodity chemicals, 30 are created directly by catalysis and another 6 are made from raw materials that are catalytically produced

Hypernyms ("catalysis" is a kind of...):

chemical action; chemical change; chemical process ((chemistry) any process determined by the atomic and molecular composition and structure of the substances involved)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "catalysis"):

autocatalysis (catalysis in which the catalyst is one of the products of the reaction)

Derivation:

catalytic (relating to or causing or involving catalysis)

 Context examples 

While not absolutely required for catalysis of nucleotide exchange, the PH domain appears to greatly increase catalytic efficiency in many cases.

(DH Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein plays a role in the catalysis of phosphorylation of phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate to form phosphatidylinositol-4,5-biphosphate, the precursor to second messengers of phosphoinositide signal transduction pathways.

(Phosphatidylinositol 5-Phosphate 4-Kinase Type-2 Alpha, NCI Thesaurus)

It is therefore surprising that catalysis, which is known to be so useful in so many fields, is practically unheard-of in oncology.

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

Lipid Binding is the molecular interaction between a lipid molecule and a macromolecule (usually protein) for transport, catalysis, localization, or modification of function.

(Lipid Binding, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is involved in the catalysis of protein neddylation.

(NEDD8-Activating Enzyme E1 Catalytic Subunit, NCI Thesaurus)

Peldesine inhibits purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) that plays a pivotal role in T-cell proliferation and is responsible for the catalysis of the reversible phosphorolytic cleavage of purine ribonucleosides and 2'-deoxyribonucleosides.

(Peldesine, NCI Thesaurus)

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)

Phospholipid Interaction involves the molecular interaction between a phospholipid molecule and a macromolecule (usually protein) for transport, catalysis, localization, or modification of function.

(Phospholipid Binding, NCI Thesaurus)

Unlike TS inhibitors, this agent is a reversible substrate for TS catalysis.

(Brivudine Phosphoramidate, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein plays a role in the catalysis of the side-chain cleavage reaction converting cholesterol to pregnenolone.

(Cholesterol Side-Chain Cleavage Enzyme, Mitochondrial, NCI Thesaurus)