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glyoxylase

glyoxylase is the alternative form 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.

Forms of glyoxylase

pluralglyoxylases

Questions about glyoxylase

What is glyoxylase the alternative form of?
Glyoxylase is the alternative form of glyoxalase.

Words near glyoxylase in the dictionary

  1. glyoxime
  2. glyoximes
  3. glyoxims
  4. glyoxisome
  5. glyoxisomes
  6. glyoxylase
  7. glyoxylases
  8. glyoxylate
  9. glyoxylate cycle
  10. glyoxylate cycles
  11. glyoxylated

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