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Ligases

"Ligases" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A class of enzymes that catalyze the formation of a bond between two substrate molecules, coupled with the hydrolysis of a pyrophosphate bond in ATP or a similar energy donor. (Dorland, 28th ed) EC 6.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Ligases" by people in this website by year, and whether "Ligases" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 17 publications over 12 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 1996 and 2001 and 2005 and 2006 and 2008
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