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Definition of Deaminization

1. Noun. Removal of the amino radical from an amino acid or other amino compound.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Deaminization

Literary usage of Deaminization

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

1. A Text-book of physiology: For Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1915)
"The amino-acids not so used have their NH2 group removed by the process of deaminization, leaving behind an organic acid or ..."

2. A Manual of Physiology: With Practical Exercises by George Neil Stewart (1918)
"Evidence has been found that in the case of some of the amino-acids the deaminization is associated not with hydrolysis in which hydroxyl is substituted for ..."

3. Principles of Biochemistry for Students of Medicine, Agriculture and Related by Thorburn Brailsford Robertson (1920)
"The next step in the degradation of nitrogenous foodstuffs by animal tissues generally, appears to consist in deaminization with the splitting off of ..."

4. Bacteriology, General, Pathological and Intestinal by Arthur Isaac Kendall (1916)
"Reductive deaminization of amino-acid to fatty acid with the same number of ... Oxi- dative deaminization of amino-acid to keto-acid with same number of ..."

5. Agricultural Bacteriology by Joseph Eames Greaves (1922)
"The reductive deaminization of amino-acids to fatty acids with the same ... Hydrolytic deaminization of amino-acids to oxyacids with the same number of ..."

6. An Introduction to Chemical Pharmacology: Pharmacodynamics in Relation to by Hugh McGuigan (1921)
"Oxidation may cause deaminization through splitting off ammonia. Various oxidizing agents like .hydrogen peroxide, and potassium permanganate, cause, ..."

7. 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)
"Still other ferments are involved; thus, for the deaminization of guanosin there is a special ferment, guanosin-deaminase (Jones), and for adenosin there is ..."

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