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A diastase (from Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
 d?astas??, "separation") is any one of a group of enzyme
Enzyme

Enzymes are biomolecules that catalysis chemical reactions. Almost all enzymes are proteins. In enzymatic reactions, the molecules at the beginning of the process are called Substrate , and the enzyme converts them into different molecules, the products....
s which catalyses
Catalysis

Catalysis is the process in which the reaction rate of a chemical reaction is either increased or decreased by means of a chemical substance known as a catalyst....
 the breakdown of starch
Starch

File:Amylose2.svgFile:Amylopektin Sessel.svgStarch or amylum is a polysaccharide carbohydrate consisting of a large number of glucose units joined together by glycosidic bonds....
 into maltose
Maltose

Maltose, or malt sugar, is a disaccharide formed from two units of glucose joined with an a linkage. It is the second member of an important biochemical series of glucose chains....
. It was the first type of enzyme discovered, in 1833, by Anselme Payen
Anselme Payen

Anselme Payen was a France chemist. He was born in Paris, where his father started to give him scientific lessons at the age of 13. He studied then partly at the ?cole Polytechnique with the best chemists....
, who found it in malt
Malt

Malting is a process applied to cereal grains, in which the grains are made to germinate by soaking in water and are then quickly halted from germinating further by drying/heating with hot air....
 solution. Today, diastase means any a-, ß-, or ?-amylase
Amylase

Amylase is an enzyme that breaks starch down into sugar. Amylase is present in human saliva, where it begins the chemical process of digestion....
 (all of them hydrolase
Hydrolase

In biochemistry, a hydrolase is an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of a chemical bond. For example, an enzyme that catalyzed the following reaction is a hydrolase:...
s) that can break down carbohydrates.

The commonly used -ase
-ase

The Affix -ase is used in biochemistry to form names of enzymes. The most common way to name enzymes is to add this suffix onto the end of the Substrate , e.g....
 suffix for naming enzymes was derived from the name diastase.








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A diastase (from Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
 d?astas??, "separation") is any one of a group of enzyme
Enzyme

Enzymes are biomolecules that catalysis chemical reactions. Almost all enzymes are proteins. In enzymatic reactions, the molecules at the beginning of the process are called Substrate , and the enzyme converts them into different molecules, the products....
s which catalyses
Catalysis

Catalysis is the process in which the reaction rate of a chemical reaction is either increased or decreased by means of a chemical substance known as a catalyst....
 the breakdown of starch
Starch

File:Amylose2.svgFile:Amylopektin Sessel.svgStarch or amylum is a polysaccharide carbohydrate consisting of a large number of glucose units joined together by glycosidic bonds....
 into maltose
Maltose

Maltose, or malt sugar, is a disaccharide formed from two units of glucose joined with an a linkage. It is the second member of an important biochemical series of glucose chains....
. It was the first type of enzyme discovered, in 1833, by Anselme Payen
Anselme Payen

Anselme Payen was a France chemist. He was born in Paris, where his father started to give him scientific lessons at the age of 13. He studied then partly at the ?cole Polytechnique with the best chemists....
, who found it in malt
Malt

Malting is a process applied to cereal grains, in which the grains are made to germinate by soaking in water and are then quickly halted from germinating further by drying/heating with hot air....
 solution. Today, diastase means any a-, ß-, or ?-amylase
Amylase

Amylase is an enzyme that breaks starch down into sugar. Amylase is present in human saliva, where it begins the chemical process of digestion....
 (all of them hydrolase
Hydrolase

In biochemistry, a hydrolase is an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of a chemical bond. For example, an enzyme that catalyzed the following reaction is a hydrolase:...
s) that can break down carbohydrates.

The commonly used -ase
-ase

The Affix -ase is used in biochemistry to form names of enzymes. The most common way to name enzymes is to add this suffix onto the end of the Substrate , e.g....
 suffix for naming enzymes was derived from the name diastase.

See also

  • Takadiastase
    Takadiastase

    Takadiastase is a form of diastase which results from the growth, development, and nutrition of a distinct microscopic fungus known as Aspergillus oryzae ....


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