mucinase
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]mucinase (plural mucinases)
- (biochemistry) A lyase that hydrolyses mucins
- 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:
- The enzyme elaborated by Clostridium perfringens, which we have designated mucinase, hydrolyzes synovial fluid mucin in two stages.