Assertion: enzyme | /r/HasProperty | amylase
Facets:
value: primarily
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Your mouth is where enzymes (primarily amylase) begin to exert their action.
text: An enzyme present in saliva, called amylase, acts on carbohydrates in the food to break them down.
text: The enzymes that break down or hydrolyze starch into the constituent sugars are known as amylases.
text: In a preferred embodiment of the method according to the invention the enzyme is a protease, lipase, amylase, cellulase, hemicellulase, pectinase, amidase or oxidase.
text: These enzymes are amylase, lipase and protease, and they help your body digest carbohydrates, fats and proteins, respectively.
text: Some argued that the beginning of biochemistry may have been the discovery of the first enzyme, diastase (now called amylase), in 1833 by Anselme Payen, while others considered Eduard Buchner's first demonstration of a complex biochemical process alcoholic fermentation in cell-free extracts in 1897 to be the birth of biochemistry.