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What does invertase mean?

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  1. (biochemistry) An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of sucrose into glucose and fructose (invert sugar), used by bees to produce honey and in the food industry to soften chocolate.
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Three pairs of targeting a corn-specific invertase gene gene, a poultry-specific ovalbumin gene and a foreign gene were obtained from Invitrogen.
Grape sugar is mainly composed of glucose and fructose, produced after sucrose hydrolysis by invertase during grapevine maturation.
Stressed cells also had higher activities of sucrose cleaving enzymes, such as alkaline invertase and sucrose synthase.
Cold sweetening so far has been attributed to soluble, vacuolar invertase rather than to cell-wall-bound invertase.
Soluble sugars were determined colorimetrically after hydrolysis of sucrose by invertase.
Following sucrose cleavage by invertase, the liberated glucose and fructose are phosphorylated before undergoing further metabolism.

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