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cytohelicase

cytohelicase noun: a form of glucanase isolated from Helix pomatia.

Noun

cytohelicase (uncountable)

  1. A form of glucanase isolated from Helix pomatia
    • The root tips were digested in a pectolytic enzyme mixture [0.1% (w/v) pectolyase Y23 (Duchefa, Haarlem, the Netherlands), 0.1% (w/v) cellulase onozuka RS (Duchefa, Haarlem, the Netherlands) and 0.1% (w/v) cytohelicase (Sigma-Aldrich, Steinheim, Germany)] in 10 mM citrate buffer (10mM tri sodium...2015, Prabhu Shankar Lakshmanan et al., “Karyotype analysis and visualization of 45S rRNA genes using fluorescence in situ hybridization in aroids (Araceae)”, in Comparative Cytogenetics, volume 9...

Questions about cytohelicase

What does cytohelicase mean?
Cytohelicase means a form of glucanase isolated from Helix pomatia.
What part of speech is cytohelicase?
Cytohelicase is a noun.

Words near cytohelicase in the dictionary

  1. cytographic
  2. cytographs
  3. cytography
  4. cytoguardin
  5. cytoguardins
  6. cytohelicase
  7. cytohesin
  8. cytohesins
  9. cytohet
  10. cytohets
  11. cytohistochemical

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