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phospholipase C

 
Sci-Tech Dictionary: phospholipase C
 
(′fäs·fə′lī′pās ¦sē)

(biochemistry) A widely distributed enzyme of considerable physiological significance that hydrolyzes phospholipids at the phosphodiester bond to produce diacylglycerol and a phosphorylated head group, as found in phosphocholine or phosphoinositol. Abbreviated PLC.


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An enzyme removing choline phosphate from a phosphatidylcholine.

 
 
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diacylglycerol (biochemistry)
sn-1,2-diacylglycerol
inositol

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