Definition of Glyoxalase

1. Noun. (biochemistry) Either of a pair of related thiol-dependent enzymes: ''glyoxalase ?'', which catalyses the isomerisation of the spontaneously formed hemithioacetal adduct between GSH and 2-oxoaldehydes (such as methylglyoxal) into S-2-hydroxyacylglutathione; and ''glyoxalase ??'', which hydrolyses these thiolesters. ¹

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Medical Definition of Glyoxalase

1. An enzyme, lactoylglutathione lyase (g. I) or hydroxyacylglutathione hydrolase (g. II), in red cells and other tissues that converts glyoxal and substituted glyoxals bound to glutathione into the corresponding free hydroxy acids (g. II) or glyoxals (g. I). (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Glyoxalase

glycyrrhetinic acid
glycyrrhiza
glycyrrhizic
glycyrrhizic acid
glycyrrhizimic
glycyrrhizin
glycyrrhizin beta-D-glucuronidase
glycyrrhizinic acid
glycyrrhizol
glyde
glyme
glyn
glyns
glyoxal
glyoxal oxidase
glyoxalase (current term)
glyoxalases
glyoxalate
glyoxalates
glyoxalic
glyoxalic acid
glyoxaline
glyoxalines
glyoxals
glyoxime
glyoximes
glyoxisome
glyoxisomes
glyoxylate
glyoxylate aminotransferase

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