| ascorbate | A salt or ester of ascorbic acid. Ascorbate oxidase, a copper-containing enzyme that catalyses the oxidation of l-ascorbic acid with O2 to l-dehydroascorbic acid. Some forms of ascorbate oxidase use NADP+ as well. Used as an antitumour enzyme. Synonym: ascorbase. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| ascorbate oxidase | <enzyme> An enzyme that converts ascorbic acid to dehydroascorbic acid. Chemical name: L-Ascorbate:oxygen oxidoreductase Registry number: EC 1.10.3.3 (12 Dec 1998) |
| ascorbate peroxidase | <enzyme> Occurs in the stroma as a soluble form (sap28) and also in the thylakoids as membrane-bound form (sap22) in angiosperm chloroplasts Registry number: EC 1.11.1.11 Synonym: ascorbic acid peroxidase, l-ascorbic acid peroxidase, stromal ascorbate peroxidase, thylakoid-bound ascorbate peroxidase (26 Jun 1999) |
| ascorbate-cyanide test | A test for glucose-6-phosphate-deficient red blood cells; blood is incubated with sodium cyanide and ascorbate; the hydrogen peroxide generated is free to oxidise haemoglobin to methemoglobin, since cyanide inhibits catalase; a brown colour is produced more rapidly in glucose 6-phosphate-deficient cells. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sodium ascorbate | Same actions and uses as ascorbic acid; it is preferred for intramuscular administration. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| L-ascorbate-2-sulfate sulfohydrolase | <enzyme> Analyzed in arylsulfatase a Registry number: EC 3.1.6.- (26 Jun 1999) |