UREASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does urease mean? 

• UREASE (noun)
  The noun UREASE has 1 sense:

1. an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of urea into carbon dioxide and ammonia; is present in intestinal bacteria

  Familiarity information: UREASE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UREASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of urea into carbon dioxide and ammonia; is present in intestinal bacteria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("urease" is a kind of...):

enzyme (any of several complex proteins that are produced by cells and act as catalysts in specific biochemical reactions)

 Context examples 

This species is nonmotile, oxidase positive, indole and urease negative, and nonhemolytic.

(Bartonella quintana, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonmotile, urease positive, oxidase, catalase, and indole positive and non-fermentative.

(Bergeyella zoohelcum, NCI Thesaurus)

This bacteria hydrolyzes esculin, produces acid from xylose and is urease and catalase negative.

(Actinomyces israelii, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonmotile, oxidase negative, urease and citrate positive, does not reduce nitrate, and grows on MacConkey agar.

(Bordetella parapertussis, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is positive for oxidase, catalase, butyrate esterase, and y-glutamyl-aminopeptidase activities, negative for phenylalanine deaminase, urease, lipase and lecithinase activity and relatively halointolerant.

(Moraxella canis, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is acid-fast, nonmotile, does not reduce nitrate, is amidase, urease and nicotinamidase positive and benzamidase, isonicotinamidase, succinamidase and acetamidase negative.

(Mycobacterium abscessus, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is acid fast, oxidase negative, urease and catalase positive, nonmotile and nonsporulating.

(Mycobacterium chelonae, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonmotile, catalase and urease positive, indole negative, does not reduce nitrate, is negative for the methyl red test and contains the amino sugar galactosamine in the cell wall.

(Micrococcus lylae, NCI Thesaurus)

Cantarella created a method where urease inhibitors are used during the cultivation of cane to prevent the transformation of urea — the most used fertilizer in Brazilian agriculture — into carbon dioxide.

(Method that cuts sugarcane emissions gets global prize, SciDev.Net)

This bacteria is motile by flagella, oxidase positive, urease negative, hydrolyzes esculin and is unable to ferment glucose.

(Achromobacter denitrificans, NCI Thesaurus)