Definition of Carbohydrase

1. Noun. (enzyme) Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of polysaccharides into simple sugars ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Carbohydrase

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Carbohydrase

1. Contains sialidase, fucosidase, hexosaminidase and beta-galactosidase Registry number: EC 3.2.1.- (26 Jun 1999)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Carbohydrase

carbocisteine
carbocyanine
carbocyanines
carbocycle
carbocycles
carbocyclic
carbocyclic compound
carbocysteine
carbodiimide
carbodiimides
carboethoxy
carbofuran
carbogenic
carbohelicene
carbohemoglobin
carbohydrase
carbohydrases
carbohydrate
carbohydrate-deficient glycoprotein syndrome
carbohydrate-induced hyperlipaemia
carbohydrate conformation
carbohydrate dehydrogenases
carbohydrate epimerases
carbohydrate loading
carbohydrate metabolism
carbohydrate sequence
carbohydrate utilization test
carbohydrates
carbohydrates and hypoglycaemic agents
carbohydraturia

Literary usage of Carbohydrase

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Food Chemicals Codex: First Supplement to the Fifth Edition by Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Food Chemicals Codex, Committee on Food Chemicals Codex, Institute of Medicine (U. S.) (2006)
"149 Carbohydrase and Protease, Mixed (Bacillus subtilis var. including Bacillus amyloliquefaciens). 149 Carbohydrase (Aspergillus niger var.. including ..."

2. Enzymes in Poultry and Swine Nutrition by R. R. Marquardt, Zhengkang Han (1997)
"Numerous protease and carbohydrase preparations have been tested with canola ... Carbohydrase 2 resulted in a 5% improvement in feed—gain ratio and a trend ..."

3. Code of Federal Regulations: Parts 170 to 199 Revised as of April 1, 2005 by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Staff (2005)
"(a) Bacterially-derived carbohydrase enzyme preparation is obtained from the culture filtrate resulting from a pure culture fermentation of a nonpathogenic ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1915)
"Compared with potato leaf tissue prepared in the same way, the carbohydrase activity °f Пса lactuca, the most active form studied, ..."

5. The Journal of General Physiology by Society of General Physiologists, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1920)
"Carbohydrase activity is, no doubt, the most important and most interesting phase in the study of the physiology of the wood-destroying fungi with reference ..."

6. Pamphlets on Wood Preservation (1922)
"... butyrate was employed, but no apparent activity when triacetin and olive oil emulsion were used as substrates. Carbohydrates. Carbohydrase activity is ..."

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