An enzyme, present in saliva and pancreatic juice, which catalyses the breakdown of maltose and similar sugars to form glucose.
〔生化〕麦芽糖酶
Example sentencesExamples
Interestingly, single dose administration of spices other than curcumin and onion did not increase intestinal maltase unlike their dietary intake.
Dietary coriander and onion prominently stimulated the activities of the disaccharidases sucrase, lactase and maltase of intestinal mucosa.
The maltase secreted in the intestines, then convert this maltose into a more ready useable sugar glucose, or the glucose could also be stored in the liver for future use.
Deletion of the gene encoding maltase causes a nonfermentable phenotype but maltose induction of maltose permease is unaffected, indicating that this enzyme is not required for induction but only for utilization of maltose.
Interestingly, we saw no apparent effect in further experiments using relatively high levels of maltase or ß-amylase.
Definition of maltase in US English:
maltase
noun
Biochemistry
An enzyme, present in saliva and pancreatic juice, that catalyzes the breakdown of maltose and similar sugars to form glucose.
〔生化〕麦芽糖酶
Example sentencesExamples
Deletion of the gene encoding maltase causes a nonfermentable phenotype but maltose induction of maltose permease is unaffected, indicating that this enzyme is not required for induction but only for utilization of maltose.
The maltase secreted in the intestines, then convert this maltose into a more ready useable sugar glucose, or the glucose could also be stored in the liver for future use.
Interestingly, we saw no apparent effect in further experiments using relatively high levels of maltase or ß-amylase.
Interestingly, single dose administration of spices other than curcumin and onion did not increase intestinal maltase unlike their dietary intake.
Dietary coriander and onion prominently stimulated the activities of the disaccharidases sucrase, lactase and maltase of intestinal mucosa.