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glyoxalases

glyoxalases is the plural of glyoxalase.

Meaning of glyoxalase

Noun

glyoxalase (countable and uncountable, plural glyoxalases)

  1. Either of a pair of related thiol-dependent enzymes: glyoxalase І, which catalyse the isomerisation of the spontaneously formed hemithioacetal adduct between GSH and 2-oxoaldehydes (such as methylglyoxal) into S-2-hydroxyacylglutathione; and glyoxalase ІІ, which hydrolyses these thiolesters.

Questions about glyoxalases

What is glyoxalases the plural of?
Glyoxalases is the plural of glyoxalase.

Words near glyoxalases in the dictionary

  1. glyns
  2. Glyntraian
  3. glyodin
  4. glyoxal
  5. glyoxalase
  6. glyoxalases
  7. glyoxalate
  8. glyoxalates
  9. glyoxalic acid
  10. glyoxalidine
  11. glyoxaline

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