invertase

== English == === Etymology === From invert +‎ -ase. === Noun === invertase (usually uncountable, plural invertases) (biochemistry, organic chemistry) An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of sucrose into glucose and fructose (invert sugar), used by bees to produce honey and in the food industry to soften chocolate. 2013, Maria Kamiko Kadowaki, Rite de Cássia Garcia Simão, Jose Luís da Conceição Silva, Clarice Aoki Osaku, Luis Henrique Souza Guimarāes, 1: Biotechnical Advances in Fungal Invertases, Maria de Lourdes T. M. Polizeli, Mahendra Rai (editors), Fungal Enzymes, page 14, The methods used for the immobilization of fungal invertases include adsorption, covalent binding, cross-linking and entrapment (Uzun et al. 2011). Nelson and Griffin (1916) reported that invertase was the first enzyme to be immobilized, and it was bound on charcoal and aluminium hydroxide. Subsequently, mant fungal invertases have been immobilized onto a variety of media […] . ==== Synonyms ==== (enzyme): beta-h-fructosidase, E1103 (used as a stabiliser), glucosucrase, saccharase, invert enzyme === Anagrams === Tavernise, Servetian == French == === Pronunciation === === Noun === invertase f (plural invertases) invertase === Further reading === “invertase”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012