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thumb|Thiamine Thiaminase is an enzyme that metabolizes or breaks down thiamine into pyrimidine and thiazole. It is an antinutrient when consumed.

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Subclass of
transferase
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EC enzyme number
2.5.1.2
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Encyclopedic overview

9 sections
Contents
  • Structure and function
  • Thiaminase I
  • Thiaminase II
  • Sources
  • Effects
  • Function
  • When ingested
  • References
  • External links

thumb|Thiamine Thiaminase is an enzyme that metabolizes or breaks down thiamine into pyrimidine and thiazole. It is an antinutrient when consumed.

The old name was "aneurinase".

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “thiaminase” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.