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Medical Definition of Pectase

1. An enzyme that converts pectin to d-galacturonic acid (pectic acid); used in the treatment of certain foodstuffs. Synonym: pectinesterase. (05 Mar 2000)

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Literary usage of Pectase

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

1. Principles of Organic and Physiological Chemistry by Carl Löwig (1853)
"It is converted into the other pectin-substances by a ferment, pectase, ... The pectase soluble in water, is converted into an insoluble state by alcohol, ..."

2. The Soluble Ferments and Fermentation by Joseph Reynolds Green (1901)
"pectase. THE formation of the vegetable jellies which can be prepared from so many ripe ... By the action of an enzyme, which he terms pectase, and which he ..."

3. Watts' Manual of Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical (based on Fownes' Manual). by Henry Watts, George Fownes, William Augustus Tilden (1886)
"... contain also a ferment called pectase, similar in its mode of action to diastase and ... pectase ..."

4. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1871)
"In the next place the pectase, acting upon the pectin, produces a certain ... pectase exists in the vegetal organism sometimes in the soluble, sometimes in ..."

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