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Definition of Deaminases
1. deaminase [n] - See also: deaminase
Medical Definition of Deaminases
1. Enzymes catalyzing simple hydrolysis of C-NH2 bonds of purines, pyrimidines, and pterins, usually named in terms of the substrate, e.g., guanine deaminases, adenosine deaminases, AMP deaminases, pterin deaminases and thus producing ammonia; not generally used for deamination of noncyclic amides. Deaminases are distinguished from ammonia-lyases (EC group 4.3.1) in that the latter produce an unsaturation at the point of NH3 removal. Synonym: deaminating enzymes. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deaminases
Literary usage of Deaminases
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"... but this is because it contains the two deaminases (Jones). The deficiency of
pigs' organs in ..."
2. The Chemistry of Plant Life by Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher (1921)
"... or amino-acid groups, are " deaminases"; and those that aid in the splitting
off of CC>2 from COOH groups are " carboxylases," etc. ..."
3. The Chemistry of Plant Life by Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher (1921)
"... or amino-acid groups, are " deaminases"; and those that aid in the splitting
off of CO2 from COOH groups are " carboxylases," etc. ..."
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