Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of trehalose.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A ferment, obtained from an Aspergillus, which will cause the cleavage of trehalose (a sugar obtained from Syrian manna) into two molecules of dextrose.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun biochemistry A glycoside hydrolase enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of trehalose to glucose, found in most animals.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word trehalase.

Examples

  • Singtripop T, Sakurai S (2008) Dual control of midgut trehalase activity by

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jie Chen et al. 2010

  • Here, we report the different functions of the two trehalase genes from a lepidopteran insect,

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jie Chen et al. 2010

  • (C) The transcription levels of target genes and the other trehalase gene were detected.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jie Chen et al. 2010

  • The sequences of the two trehalase cDNAs were compared with other trehalase sequences deposited in the GenBank using the

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jie Chen et al. 2010

  • These further confirmed that expressions of the genes in the chitin biosynthesis pathway are affected by changes in expressions of trehalase genes.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jie Chen et al. 2010

  • The first insect trehalase gene, a soluble trehalase gene, was reported in 1992

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jie Chen et al. 2010

  • The phylogenetic analysis of the trehalases amino acids was conducted using the MEGA3. 1 program to generate a phylogenetic tree (1, the soluble trehalase gene; 2, the membrane-bound trehalase gene) and the robustness of each cluster was verified in 1000 replicates.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jie Chen et al. 2010

  • In the midgut, the two trehalase genes were expressed in different locations.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jie Chen et al. 2010

  • Each point represents the mean ± SEM from three independent experiments with all effective individuals for target gene detection and with three effective individuals for the other trehalase gene detection.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jie Chen et al. 2010

  • Effects of trehalose injection on expressions of key genes in the chitin biosynthesis pathway In addition to the down-regulation of trehalase expression, an examination of an indirect up-regulation of trehalases by the injection of trehalose was conducted.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jie Chen et al. 2010

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.