NOUN
- a complex of enzymes that cause glycolysis; originally found in yeast but also present in higher organisms
How To Use zymase In A Sentence
- The researches of von Euler and his pupils have further led to the concentration of the co-zymase and to a far more exact study of its properties than had been previously possible. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1929 - Presentation Speech
- The reaction is then carried out in presence of yeast, which contain two enzymes maltose and zymase.
- Even now the question remains open whether zymase can be added directly to the established list of enzymes.
- This demonstration of the part of mutase played by the co-zymase, or in other words of the identity of co-zymase and co-mutase, is of fundamental importance, for it has fully revealed the central position in the process of fermentation of the complementary enzyme in question. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1929 - Presentation Speech
- Virtanen established the indispensability of cozymase in lactic and propionic acid fermentations, as well as the phosphorylation of sugar (1924). Artturi Virtanen - Biography
- This phosphate afterwards undergoes a mutation in the presence of co-zymase, inasmuch as a glucose diphosphate and an active glucose are formed, after which the latter yields the necessary material for the subsequent stages of the fermentation. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1929 - Presentation Speech
- Harden had shown in 1906 that fermentation requires a dialysable substance, called co-zymase, which is not destroyed by heat. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry
- It was soon realized that the conversion of sugar into alcohol by means of yeast juice is a series of stepwise reactions, and that zymase is really a mixture of several enzymes.
- The production of a co-zymase with a high activity has also shown in a brilliant manner the character of that enzyme as a specific activator. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1929 - Presentation Speech
- Harden explained this by saying that a high-molecular enzyme, the zymase proper, was left on the filter, which let through a low-molecular complementary enzyme, which for the sake of brevity was called co-enzyme or co-zymase. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1929 - Presentation Speech