phosphorolysisn.

1937 Enzymologia 2 160 Phosphorolysis is an enzymic process.

1946 Nature 23 Nov. 746/2 It was suggested that the coenzyme in muscle, while taking up two hydrogen atoms in the pyridine nucleus through the addition of free phosphate, undergoes a phosphorolysis.

1970 R. W. McGilvery Biochemistry xv. 296 Glycogen is mainly degraded by a simple phosphorolysis of the 1 → 4 glucosidic bonds to form glucose-1-phosphate.

1992 C. A. Smith & E. J. Wood Biosynthesis vi. 132 Adenylylation and phosphorolysis are catalysed by the same adenylyltransferase.