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Maltase (EC 3.2.1.20, alpha-glucosidase, glucoinvertase, glucosidosucrase,
maltase-glucoamylase, alpha-glucopyranosidase, glucosidoinvertase, alpha-D-glucosidase...
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Maltase-glucoamylase,
intestinal is an
enzyme that in
humans is
encoded by the MGAM gene.
Maltase-glucoamylase is an alpha-glucosidase
digestive enzyme...
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caused by a
mutation in a gene (acid alpha-glucosidase: also
known as acid
maltase) on long arm of
chromosome 17 at 17q25.2-q25.3 (base pair 75,689,876 to...
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nature of the
glycosidic bond.
Maltose can be
broken down to
glucose by the
maltase enzyme,
which catalyses the
hydrolysis of the
glycosidic bond.[citation...
- (January 1981). "Lysosomal
glycogen storage disease with
normal acid
maltase". Neurology. 31 (1): 51–7. doi:10.1212/wnl.31.1.51. PMID 6450334. S2CID 32860087...
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enzymes with
activities specified by this EC
number include: MGAM is the "
maltase-glucoamylase",
found on the
intestine brush border. GAA is the "acid alpha-glucosidase"...
- inhibition;
specifically using fructose and
glucose as
inhibitors of
maltase activity.
Maltase breaks maltose into two
units of glucose.
Findings from that experiment...
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breaks the
bonds linking saccharides,
which cannot be
broken by
amylase or
maltase. It
digests polysaccharides at the
alpha 1-6 linkages. Its substrate, alpha-limit...
- have the
enzyme maltase,
which breaks down malt sugar, in
their intestinal tract.
Nectivorous and
frugivorous bats have more
maltase and
sucrase enzymes...
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which further break down oligosaccharides.
Other brush border enzymes are
maltase,
sucrase and lactase.
Lactase is
absent in some
adult humans and, for them...
