Meanings
nounzymohexase (countable and uncountable, plural zymohexases)
plural zymohexases
- countabledateduncountablebiochemistryaldolase
Meyerhoff & Lohmann [1934, 1, 2] discovered zymohexase, an enzyme of wide distribution in animal and plant tissues which catalyzes the scission of 1:6-diphosphofructose into two molecules of triosephosphate.
1940 July, D Herbert, H Gordon, V Subrahmanyan, D E Green, “Zymohexase”, in Biochemical Journal, volume 34, number 7, →DOI
Origin
By surface analysis, zymo- + hexa- + -ase.
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