Dehydrase
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /diːˈhaɪdɹeɪz/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Dehydrase is a noun meaning (biochemistry, disused) dehydrogenase.
Meaning
(biochemistry, disused) dehydrogenase.
More Meanings
- (biochemistry, disused) dehydratase
Example Sentences
Citric acid dehydrase is present in the liver and in vegetable material acting on citric acid.
Freudenberg also postulates a second process whereby catechins in the presence of dehydrases undergo condensation by dehydrogenation.
It is shown by means of a typical dehydrase, Schardinger’s milk enzyme, that oxidase, reductase and mutase are 1 and the same enzyme.
The usual English term ‘dehydrase’ for an enzyme dehydrating a substrate was changed to dehydratase, because Dehydrase in German…means a dehydrogenating enzyme rather than an enzyme splitting off water.
Word Forms
- dehydrases
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include serine, dehydratase, dehydrolase, dehydrogenase, dehydrochlorinase, dehydroxylase.
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