| 释义 |
decarboxylase Biochem.|diːkɑːˈbɒksɪleɪz, -eɪs|
[f. de- + carboxyl + -ase.]
Any enzyme which effects decarboxylation.
1940E. F. Gale in Biochem. Jrnl. XXXIV. 399 When the organism is grown on the surface of broth agar, it has negligible decarboxylase activity. Ibid. 411 The production of decarboxylases may be the method by which the organism extends its range of existence, utilizing amino-acid decarboxylation when other substrates and methods of attack are no longer available. 1947Sci. News IV. 64 The particular enzyme, containing B1, was called pyruvic oxidase, sometimes decarboxylase. |