adenosine deaminase

1. 1.

   an enzyme found in mammals that can catalyze the deamination of adenosine into inosine and ammonia

   “ADA deficiency can lead to one form of severe combined immunodeficiency disease”

   “the gene encoding ADA was one of the earlier human genes to be isolated and cloned for study”

   SynonymsADA

   Broaderenzyme

Questions about adenosine deaminase

What does adenosine deaminase mean?

adenosine deaminase means "an enzyme found in mammals that can catalyze the deamination of adenosine into inosine and ammonia".

What is another word for adenosine deaminase?

Close synonyms include ADA. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is adenosine deaminase a common word?

adenosine deaminase is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.