Meaning of dehydrase | Babel Free

Definitions

1. dehydrogenase
2. dehydratase

Examples

“It is shown by means of a typical dehydrase, Schardinger’s milk enzyme, that oxidase, reductase and mutase are 1 and the same enzyme.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The enzymic dehydration of tartaric acid to oxaloacetic acid, first established…for the d-isomer, occurs also with the meso- and l-isomers, and the attack on all three tartaric acids by bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas appears to occur⟳ principally by means of stereospecific dehydrases.”

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