mucinase

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Noun

mucinase (plural mucinases)

  1. (biochemistry) A lyase that hydrolyses mucins.
    • 1940 January 1, 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.

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