English Explanatory Dictionary

creatininase

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An amidohydrolase enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of creatinine to creatine, which can then be metabolised to urea and sarcosine by creatinase.

Word forms

creatininase creatininases

Etymology

From creatinine + -ase.

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