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arginase Chem.|ˈɑːdʒɪneɪz, -s|
[G. (Kossel and Dakin 1904, in Z. Physiol. Chem. XLI. 322): see next and -ase.]
An enzyme capable of hydrolysing arginine into ornithine and urea.
1904Nature 16 June 160/2 The enzyme has been named ‘arginase’, and is the first representative of the class of urea-forming enzymes capable of being isolated and of acting outside the body. 1931Lancet 9 May 1021/2 Eldbacher and Merz have recently shown that ‘all malignant mammalian and human tumours..are distinguished from normal tissue by their arginase content’. 1953New Biol. XV. 90 The enzyme arginase..is present in large amounts in all the body tissues [of the dogfish] except blood and brain. |