adenosine deaminase

NOUN
  1. an enzyme found in mammals that can catalyze the deamination of adenosine into inosine and ammonia
    ADA deficiency can lead to one form of severe combined immunodeficiency disease
    the gene encoding ADA was one of the earlier human genes to be isolated and cloned for study

How To Use adenosine deaminase In A Sentence

  • Adenosine deaminase is an aminohydrolase that converts adenosine to inosine and is thus involved in the catabolism of purine bases.
  • SCID arises in infants with a genetic defect that leaves them unable to produce an enzyme called adenosine deaminase. Health News from Medical News Today
  • Bubble boy" disease: severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) due to a lack of an enzyme called adenosine deaminase. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • The first approved GM procedure was performed in 1990 when NIH scientists genetically modified white blood cells in Ashanti DeSilva, a four-year-old girl with adenosine deaminase deficiency The Human Genome Project
  • Adenosine deaminase is an aminohydrolase that converts adenosine to inosine and is thus involved in the catabolism of purine bases.
  • Adenosine deaminase is an enzyme of purine metabolism which catalyses adenosine into inosine and is found in most human tissues particularly in the lymphoid tissues.
  • This form of SCID arises in babies with a genetic defect that leaves them deficient of an enzyme called adenosine deaminase. Canadian Online Health News
  • Moreover, diaminopurine riboside was a poorer substrate for adenosine deaminase than was adenosine. Nobel Lecture The Purine Path To Chemotherapy
  • Carly Todd, from Lennoxtown, Stirlingshire, is suffering from a condition called adenosine deaminase deficiency which inhibits her immune system.
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