zymase

/zahy-meys/US // ˈzaɪ meɪs //UK // (ˈzaɪmeɪs) //

酶,酶的作用,酶制剂,酶素

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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Biochemistry.
- : the complex of enzymes obtained from yeast, also occurring in bacteria and other organisms, that acts in alcoholic fermentation and other forms of glycolysis.

Such material is far more active than the zymase obtained originally by Buchner from the expressed juice of yeast-cells.
Those which produce carbon dioxide without the use of free “deamidizing” oxygen, such as zymase of yeast.
Zymase is the active alcoholic fermentation enzyme of yeasts.
The best known example of a coenzyme in plant tissues is in connection with the activity of the zymase of yeast cells.
Thus the yeast plant is supposed to bring about alcoholic fermentation by secreting the enzyme known as zymase.