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ATPase

An enzyme that hydrolyses ATP; usually the partial activity of an enzyme, or system of enzymes, that uses the energy made available by the hydrolysis of ATP to drive an energetically unfavourable process, e.g. the Na+/K+-ATPase of cell membranes.

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