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Any enzyme that catalyzes the splitting of proteins into smaller peptide fractions and amino acids by a process known as proteolysis
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protease
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any enzyme that catalyzes the splitting of proteins into smaller peptide fractions and amino acids by a process known as proteolysis [syn: peptidase , proteinase , proteolytic enzyme ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context enzyme English) An enzyme that cuts or cleaves proteins.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1903, from protein + -ase . Related: Proteolysis .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A protease (also called a peptidase or proteinase ) is any enzyme that performs proteolysis , that is, begins protein catabolism by hydrolysis of the peptide bonds that link amino acids together in a polypeptide chain. Proteases have evolved multiple times ...
Usage examples of protease.
HIV, but this time by inhibiting the protease enzyme crucial to assembling the virus.
HIV protease and the human proteases that are essential to the digestive process, resulting in a list of ill effects every bit as daunting as that pertaining to AZT, including kidney and liver failure, strokes, heart attacks, and gross deformities.
If I can only contrive a way to place some protease inhibitor II into my small intestine, my CCK will rise and my appetite will disappear.
And they ate 17 percent less at lunch than when they drank the same soup without protease inhibitor II.
Christopher Nelson told me that a gram of protease inhibitor II would cost ninety-five dollars and take eight weeks to arrive.
Protease inhibitors bind to the active site of the viral Protease enzyme and disrupt viral protein processing.
The SHEVA protease cleaves three novel cyclooxygenases and lipooxygenases from the LPC, which then synthesize three different and unique prosta-glandins.
There is a lytic haemotoxic protease in the toxin pumped down the center of the spine-harpoon, but there will be very little on the outside of it, Major General.
Eric grew resistant to the protease inhibitor, and the doctor switched him to another one, and another one, but it didn't do any good.