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autocatalysis
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au·to·ca·tal·y·sis  (ôt-k-tl-ss)
n. pl. au·to·ca·tal·y·ses (-sz)
Catalysis of a chemical reaction by one of the products of the reaction.
auto·cata·lytic (-ktl-tk) adj.
auto·cata·lyti·cal·ly adv.
autocatalysis [ˌɔːtəʊkəˈtælɪsɪs]
n pl -ses [-ˌsiːz]
(Chemistry) the catalysis of a reaction in which the catalyst is one of the products of the reaction
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Noun1.autocatalysis - catalysis in which the catalyst is one of the products of the reaction
catalysis, contact action - acceleration of a chemical reaction induced the presence of material that is chemically unchanged at the end of the reaction; "of the top 50 commodity chemicals, 30 are created directly by catalysis and another 6 are made from raw materials that are catalytically produced"
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ORF1 encodes a polyprotein that is autocatalytically cleaved to produce an N terminal protein, the nucleoside triphosphatase, a 3A-like protein, the viral VpG, a 3C-like protease, and the RNA-dependent RNA-polymerase (10,11).
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The polyproteins are autocatalytically processed into replicative enzymes, including the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, which synthesizes both negative-sense and positive-sense sgRNAs, and the positive-sense sgRNAs serve as mRNAs for all of the open reading frames (ORFs) downstream of ORF1b (6,11).
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