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dehydrases

dehydrases is the plural of dehydrase.

Meaning of dehydrase

Noun

dehydrase (plural dehydrases)

  1. dehydrogenase
    • It is shown by means of a typical dehydrase, Schardinger’s milk enzyme, that oxidase, reductase and mutase are 1 and the same enzyme.1914, Chemical Abstracts, volume 8, page 3,051
  2. dehydratase
    • 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.1953, Advances in Enzymology, volume 14, page 243

Questions about dehydrases

What is dehydrases the plural of?
Dehydrases is the plural of dehydrase.

Words near dehydrases in the dictionary

  1. dehybridizes
  2. dehybridizing
  3. dehydrant
  4. dehydrants
  5. dehydrase
  6. dehydrases
  7. dehydratable
  8. dehydratase
  9. dehydratases
  10. dehydratation
  11. dehydrate

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