Definition of "enolase" []

• An enzyme present in muscle tissue that acts in carbohydrate metabolism. (noun)

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• "For example, there is a distinctive ID hypothesis that predicts that the degradosome functions as a prong in enolase."
• "Expression of Cre and hence targeting of the floxed gene can be restricted to e.g. T cells (lck promoter), cardiac muscle (cardiac myosin promoter), neurons (enolase promoter) or epithelia (cytokeratin promoter)."
• "Heavy atom NMR spectroscopy of the hydrogens of P-enolpyruvate led to Mildred Cohn's solution of the reaction stereochemistry of the reaction of enolase using (3R) - phosphoglyceric acid-3-d39."