ada

Noun

• an enzyme found in mammals that can catalyze the deamination of adenosine into inosine and ammonia
  • ADA deficiency can lead to one form of severe combined immunodeficiency disease
    
  • the gene encoding ADA was one of the earlier human genes to be isolated and cloned for study
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  adenosine deaminase , ADA