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Cytoplasmic Inorganic Pyrophosphatase

1999; Springer Science+Business Media; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-642-58444-2_7

2197-8484

Alexander A. Baykov, Barry S. Cooperman, Adrian Goldman, Reijo Lahti,

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Pyrophosphate (PPi) is the smallest member of the polyphosphate family and is formed by two phosphate (Pi) residues linked by a phosphoanhydride bond. A specific enzyme hydrolyzing PPi to Pi was discovered in animal tissues in 1928 (Kay) and later in a great many other organisms and cell types, in virtually all in which it has been sought. Its initial name was "pyrophosphatase", later elongated with a questionable "inorganic".