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histidinase

histidinase noun: histidine ammonia-lyase, an enzyme that converts histidine into ammonia and urocanic acid.

Noun

histidinase (uncountable)

  1. Histidine ammonia-lyase, an enzyme that converts histidine into ammonia and urocanic acid.

Origin of histidinase

From histidine + -ase.

Questions about histidinase

What does histidinase mean?
Histidinase means histidine ammonia-lyase, an enzyme that converts histidine into ammonia and urocanic acid.
What part of speech is histidinase?
Histidinase is a noun.

Words near histidinase in the dictionary

  1. histidase
  2. histidases
  3. histidin
  4. histidinaemia
  5. histidinaemic
  6. histidinase
  7. histidinate
  8. histidinates
  9. histidine
  10. histidinemia
  11. histidinemic

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