Definition of Guanase

1. an enzyme [n -S] - See also: enzyme

Medical Definition of Guanase

1. An enzyme that catalyses the deamination of guanine to form xanthine. Chemical name: Guanine aminohydrolase Registry number: EC 3.5.4.3 (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Guanase

guam
guama
guan
guana
guanabana
guanabanas
guanabenz
guanabenz acetate
guanacline sulfate
guanaco
guanacoes
guanacos
guanadrel sulfate
guanajuatite
guanas
guanase (current term)
guanases
guanay
guanays
guanazole
guanazolo
guanciale
guanco
guancos
guandao
guanethidine
guanethidine sulfate
guanethidines
guanfacine
guango

Literary usage of Guanase

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text-book of physiological chemistry by Olof Hammarsten, John Alfred Mandel (1908)
"guanase is absent from the pig-liver, ... and hence uric acid is formed only from guanase, while the dog-liver, on the contrary, which contains ..."

2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"The deficiency of pigs' organs in guanase may account for the well-known deposits of guanin (often seen in ham), called "guanin gout. ..."

3. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry: By John A. Mandel by Olof Hammarsten (1908)
"guanase is absent from the pig-liver, ... and hence uric acid is formed only from guanase, while the dog-liver, on the contrary, which contains ..."

4. Nucleic Acids: Their Chemical Properties and Physiological Conduct by Walter Jones (1914)
"Dog's liver contains guanase but not ... the existence of two deaminases, went so far as to assume that guanase and ... by the action of guanase and ..."

5. The Elements of the Science of Nutrition by Graham Lusk (1917)
"Jones therefore concludes that an enzyme, guanase, which normally removes the NH2 group and replaces it with O, is wanting in the pig's spleen, ..."

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