(n.) The white milky pulp or extract of bitter almonds.
(n.) An unorganized ferment (contained in this extract and in other vegetable juices), which effects the decomposition of certain glucosides.
Example Sentences:
(1) The third enzyme is the beta-glucosidase from almond emulsin.
(2) Hydrolysis by fungal amyloglucosidase proceeds with inversion of configuration whereas that by yeast and rat intestinal alpha-glucosidase, coffee-bean alpha-galactosidase and almond emulsin beta-glucosidase proceeds with retention of configuration.
(3) A new type of glycopeptidase hydrolyzing beta-aspartylglycosylamine linkages was partially purified from almond emulsin by chromatography on Sephadex G-200 and DE 52.
(4) Thus, the substrate specificities of the Streptomyces alpha-fucosidase resembled those of alpha-fucosidases I and III isolated from almond emulsin rather than those of other microbial alpha-fucosidases.
(5) A purified beta-D-glucosidase (beta-D-glucoside glucohydrolase, EC 3.2.1.21) isozyme isolated from almond emulsin was found to catalyze hydrolysis of beta-D-glucopyranosides and beta-D-galactopyranosides but not the corresponding alpha-D-derivatives.
(6) Rat epididymis resembles emulsin except that, as already noted, it lacks beta-glucosidase activity.
(7) Beta-Glucosidase, beta-galactosidase, beta-xylosidase and alpha-L-arabinosidase activities of partially purified preparation of almond emulsin were investigated using chromatography, electrophoresis in polyacrylamide gel and isoelectric focusing.
(8) Sulfate bearing moieties could also be released by almond emulsin peptide:N-glycosidase digestion.
(9) The previous study (Conchie, Gelman & Levvy, 1967b) of the specificity of beta-glucosidase, beta-galactosidase and beta-d-fucosidase in barley, limpet, almond emulsin and rat epididymis was extended to alpha-l-arabinosidase.
(10) beta-d-Glucopyranosyl azide was not a detectable substrate for almond emulsin beta-d-glucosidase.
(11) Two specific alpha-L-fucosidases from almond emulsin and from Aspergillus niger, combined with affinity HPLC on immobilized Aleuria aurantia lectin were used to study the linkage of L-fucose in the oligosaccharide chains.
(12) The two S-glucosides resisted hydrolysis by beta-glucosidase from almond emulsin.
(13) A beta-D-glucosidase (beta-D-glucoside glucohydrolase, EC 3.2.1.21) isozyme has been isolated from almond emulsin.
(14) The beta-d configuration was demonstrated by enzymic studies with emulsin (an adequate source of beta-glucosidase activity) and with Mylase-P (an adequate source of beta-glucosidase and beta-xylosidase activities).
(15) In emulsin, the enzyme that hydrolyses beta-glucosides, beta-galactosides and beta-d-fucosides also hydrolyses alpha-l-arabinosides.
(16) The by-product (3) in the hydration of D-glucal (1) catalyzed by emulsin beta-D-glucosidase has been identified as 1,5-anhydro-2-deoxy-3-O-(2-deoxy-beta-D-arabino-hexopyranosyl)-D-arabino-hex-1-enitol.
(17) Susceptibility of the product to alpha-L-fucosidase I from almond emulsin verified that the enzyme transferred fucose to C-3 hydroxyl of N-acetylglucosamine in the N-acetyllactosamine structure.
(18) Treatment of the individual glycopeptides with almond emulsin peptide:N-glycosidase or Endo F demonstrated that the [3H]glucosamine label existed almost entirely in N-linked oligosaccharide structures (Mr 5000 to 10,000).
(19) It inactivates the beta-glucosidases from both almond emulsin and Agrobacter sp.
(20) The terminal D-glucopyranose residue was hydrolysed by emulsin, indicating a beta linkage.
Enzyme
Definition:
(n.) An unorganized or unformed ferment, in distinction from an organized or living ferment; a soluble, or chemical, ferment. Ptyalin, pepsin, diastase, and rennet are good examples of enzymes.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, DNA polymerase alpha, the enzyme involved in chromosomal DNA replication, was relatively insensitive to CA1.
(2) The accumulation of lipids and enzymes such as simple estarase, lipase, beta-HDH, alpha-GDH and NADPH-reductase in those areas, suggests that lipids are not a simple excretory product.
(3) It was found that the skeletal muscle enzyme of the chick embryo is independent of the presence of creatine and consequently is another constitutive enzyme like the creatine kinase of the early embryonic chick heart.
(4) Previous attempts to purify this enzyme from the liquid endosperm of kernels of Zea mays (sweet corn) were not entirely successful owing to the lability of partially purified preparations during column chromatography.
(5) These results demonstrate that increased availability of galactose, a high-affinity substrate for the enzyme, leads to increased aldose reductase messenger RNA, which suggests a role for aldose reductase in sugar metabolism in the lens.
(6) As far as acrophase table is concerned for all enzymes and fractions the acrophase occurred during the night.
(7) This theory was confirmed by product analysis and by measuring the affinity of the substrate for the enzyme by its inhibition of p-nitrophenyl glucoside hydrolysis.
(8) This result demonstrates that branching enzyme belongs to a family of the amylolytic enzymes.
(9) These results are discussed in relation to the possible existence of enzyme-bound intermediates of nitrogen fixation.
(10) During enzyme purification two nucleases were identified.
(11) Binding data for both ligands to the enzyme yielded nonlinear Scatchard plots that analyze in terms of four negatively cooperative binding sites per enzyme tetramer.
(12) In the measurement, enzyme-labeled and unlabeled antigens (Ag* and Ag) were allowed to compete in binding to the antibody (Ab) under conditions where Ag* much less than Ab much less than Ag.
(13) Nucleotide, which is essential for catalysis, greatly enhances the binding of IpOHA by the reductoisomerase, with NADPH (normally present during the enzyme's rearrangement step, i.e., conversion of a beta-keto acid into an alpha-keto acid, in either the forward or reverse physiological reactions) being more effective than NADP.
(14) The enzyme, when assayed as either a phospholipase A2 or lysophospholipase, exhibited nonlinear kinetics beyond 1-2 min despite low substrate conversion.
(15) The specific limited trypsinolysis of bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase (T7RP) was performed in the presence of various components of the polymerase reaction and some GTP-analogs--irreversible inhibitors of the enzyme.
(16) Hepatic enzyme elevations were more dramatic after blunt trauma, reflecting greater hepatocellular disruption.
(17) Treatment of the bound F1-ATPase with 4-chloro-7-nitrobenzofurazan prevented complete release of the enzyme by ATP.
(18) The enzyme was solubilized by Triton X-100 and purified approximately 480-fold by gel filtration and affinity chromatography on alanine methyl ketone-AH-Sepharose 4B.
(19) The DNA untwisting enzyme has been purified approximately 300-fold from rat liver nuclei.
(20) We have measured the antibody specificities to the two polysaccharides in sera from asymptomatic group C meningococcal carriers and vaccinated adults by a new enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) procedure using methylated human serum albumin for coating the group C polysaccharide onto microtiter plates.