aconitase
See also: Aconitase
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aconitase (countable and uncountable, plural aconitases)
- (biochemistry) Aconitate hydratase, an enzyme that catalyses the stereospecific isomerization of citrate to isocitrate via cis-aconitate in the tricarboxylic acid cycle.
- 1939 June 1, William Arthur Johnson, “Aconitase”, in Biochemical Journal, volume 33, number 6, page 1046:
- The enzyme system bringing about the reversible hydration of cisaconitic acid has been shown to be different from fumarase and termed "aconitase".
- 1959, Virginia Commission of Fisheries, Report of the Commission of Fisheries of Virginia[1], page 54:
- These are: aconitase, isocitric dehydrogenase, alpha-ketoglutaric dehydrogenase, succinic dehydrogenase, fumarase, malic dehydrogenase, DPHN-oxidase, and cytochrome oxidase.
- 2000, Louis J. Ignarro, Nitric Oxide: Biology and Pathobiology[2], page 301:
- The best-characterized member of iron-sulfur isomerases is mitochondrial aconitase.
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aconitase f (uncountable)
- (biochemistry) aconitase (aconitate hydratase)