cellobiasen.

1919 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 116 i. 420 No evidence of this substance being degraded by the action of diastase could be obtained, nor did emulsin, by virtue of its cellobiase, bring about the formation of any products yielding osazones.

1934 C. C. Steele Introd. Plant Biochem. iii. x. 99 An enzyme lichenase also occurs in plants which will hydrolyse lichenin to cellobiose, but if the enzyme cellobiase is present as well, glucose is the product.

1974 Compar. Biochem. & Physiol. B. 47 327 No previous attempts have been made to characterize insect cellulases, probably because of the need to remove all cellobiase activity.

2005 J. C. Wilson et al. in K. J. Yarema Handbk. Carbohydrate Engin. xxiv. 648 Since fungal β-glucosidases are responsible for the hydrolysis of cellobiose and the saccharification of cellulose, these enzymes have also been called cellobiases. This name, however, is misleading, since it suggests a high substrate specificity for cellobiose.