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What is a phosphatase?

What is a phosphatase? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biochemistry) Any of several enzymes that hydrolyze phosphate esters, and are important in the metabolism of carbohydrates, nucleotides and phospholipids, and in the formation of bone.
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A phosphatase inhibitor, sodium vanadate, reduced the effect of alkaline phosphatase.
In contrast, signal amplitude is found most sensitive to the phosphatase reactions at the ERK level.
Preliminary experiments showed that congelation in these conditions did not affect the phosphatase activity.
Alkaline phosphatase is not at all, or only in small amounts present in root exudates of vascular plants.
Laboratory findings included elevated levels of alkaline phosphatase and lactate dehydrogenase.
Calf spleen phosphodiesterase, snake venom phosphodiesterase and alkaline phosphatase were from Roche Molecular Biochemicals.

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