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mucinases

mucinases is the plural of mucinase.

Meaning of mucinase

Noun

mucinase (plural mucinases)

  1. A lyase that hydrolyses mucins
    • The enzyme elaborated by Clostridium perfringens, which we have designated mucinase, hydrolyzes synovial fluid mucin in two stages.1940 January, William van B. Robertson, Marian W. Ropes, Walter Bauer, “Mucinase: a Bacterial Enzyme which Hydrolyzes Synovial Fluid Mucin and other Mucins”, in Journal of Biological Chemistry

Questions about mucinases

What is mucinases the plural of?
Mucinases is the plural of mucinase.

Words near mucinases in the dictionary

  1. mucilaginousness
  2. mucilloid
  3. mucilloids
  4. mucin
  5. mucinase
  6. mucinases
  7. mucine
  8. mucinlike
  9. mucinogen
  10. mucinogens
  11. mucinoid

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