Definition of "helicases" [helicases]

• Plural form of helicase. (noun)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "(Oct. 28, 2005) - Researchers studying how proteins called helicases travel along strands of DNA have found that when the proteins hit an obstacle they snap back to where they began, repeating the process over and ... > read more"
• "The two molecular biologists initially discovered that this motor protein burns energy in the same way as enzymes called helicases and, like helicases, attached to the dividing sections of DNA."
• "Via Dara Sosulski, highlighting a sentence from a scientific paper she was reading, “The ping-pong cycle acts independently of Piwi and Armitage but requires the function of Aubergine, the RNA helicases Spindle-E and Vasa, and the Tudor-domain protein Krimper.”"