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n. (context enzyme English) An enzyme, present in some tissue, that catalyses the conversion of phosphates of fructose to those of glyceraldehyde and dihydroxyacetone
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An aldolase is an enzyme that performs an aldol reaction (creating an aldol) or its reverse (cleaving an aldol). The word often refers to any type of fructose-bisphosphate aldolase, but can also refer to other enzymes, such as the one that forms sialic acid.
Category:Lyases
Unqualified, aldolase usually refers to the enzyme fructose-bisphosphate aldolase.
Aldolase may also refer to proteins serving as fructose-bisphosphate aldolase:
- Aldolase A
- Aldolase B
- Aldolase C
or to other enzymes called aldolases:
- 17a-hydroxyprogesterone aldolase
- 2-dehydro-3-deoxy-6-phosphogalactonate aldolase
- 2-dehydro-3-deoxy-D-pentonate aldolase
- 2-dehydro-3-deoxyglucarate aldolase
- 2-dehydro-3-deoxy-L-pentonate aldolase
- 2-dehydro-3-deoxy-phosphogluconate aldolase
- 2-dehydropantoate aldolase
- 3-deoxy-D-manno-octulosonate aldolase
- 4-(2-carboxyphenyl)-2-oxobut-3-enoate aldolase
- 5-dehydro-2-deoxyphosphogluconate aldolase
- Benzoin aldolase
- Deoxyribose-phosphate aldolase
- Dihydroneopterin aldolase
- Dimethylaniline-N-oxide aldolase
- Ketotetrose-phosphate aldolase
- Lactate aldolase
- L-fuculose-phosphate aldolase
- Phenylserine aldolase
- Rhamnulose-1-phosphate aldolase
- Sphinganine-1-phosphate aldolase
- Tagatose-bisphosphate aldolase
- Threonine aldolase
- Trimethylamine-oxide aldolase
Usage examples of "aldolase".
O'Connor, and the dates those tests were first described in clinically practical terms: X ray: chest and abdomen (1905-15) White cell count (about 1895) Serum acetone (1928) Amylase (1948) Calcium (1931) Phosphorus (1925) SCOT (1955) LDH (1956) CPK (1961) John O'Connor 45 Aldolase (1949) Lipase (1934) CSF protein (1931) CSF sugar (1932) Blood sugar (1932) Bilirubin (1937) Serum albumin/globulin (1923-38) Electrolytes (1941-6) Electrocardiogram (about 1915) Prothrombin time (1940) Blood pH (1924-57) Blood gases (1957) Protein-bound iodine (1948) Alkaline phosphatase (1933) Watson-Schwartz (1941) Creatinine (1933) Uric acid (1933) If one were to graph these tests, and others commonly used, against the total time course of medical history, one would see a flat line for more than two thousand years, followed by a slight rise beginning about 1850, and then an ever-sharper rise to the present time.