glucocerebrosidase

English

Etymology

From glucocerebroside +‎ -ase.

Noun

glucocerebrosidase (countable and uncountable, plural glucocerebrosidases)

  1. (biochemistry) An enzyme that is needed to cleave, by hydrolysis, the beta-glucosidic linkage of glucocerebroside, an intermediate in glycolipid metabolism, and mutations in which cause Gaucher's disease.

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