AmiGO 2: Term Details for "amylase activity" (GO:0016160)

Accession: GO:0016160
Name: amylase activity
Ontology: molecular_function
Synonyms: None
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: Catalysis of the hydrolysis of amylose or an amylose derivative. Source: GOC:ai
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0016160 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to amylase activity (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to amylase activity (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for amylase activity (excluding "regulates").

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subject	relation	object
amylase activity	is_a	hydrolase activity, hydrolyzing O-glycosyl compounds (GO:0004553)

subject	relation	object
alpha-amylase activity (GO:0004556)	is_a	amylase activity
beta-amylase activity (GO:0016161)	is_a	amylase activity

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