aconitase

plural aconitases

1. countableuncountablebiochemistryAconitate hydratase, an enzyme that catalyses the stereospecific isomerization of citrate to isocitrate via cis-aconitate in the tricarboxylic acid cycle.

   The best-characterized member of iron-sulfur isomerases is mitochondrial aconitase.

   2000, Louis J. Ignarro, Nitric Oxide: Biology and Pathobiology, page 301

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   The enzyme system bringing about the reversible hydration of cisaconitic acid has been shown to be different from fumarase and termed "aconitase".

   1939 June 1, William Arthur Johnson, “Aconitase”, in Biochemical Journal, volume 33, number 6, page 1046

   These are: aconitase, isocitric dehydrogenase, alpha-ketoglutaric dehydrogenase, succinic dehydrogenase, fumarase, malic dehydrogenase, DPHN-oxidase, and cytochrome oxidase.

   1959, Virginia Commission of Fisheries, Report of the Commission of Fisheries of Virginia, page 54