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- noun Plural form of
proenzyme .
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Caspases exist as inactive proenzymes that undergo proteolytic processing at conserved aspartic residues to produce two subunits, large and small, that dimerize to form the active enzyme.
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Caspases exist as inactive proenzymes which undergo proteolytic processing by upstream caspases
WN.com - Articles related to DTI favors zero tariffs on cement, wheat 2010
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Caspases exist as inactive proenzymes that undergo proteolytic processing at conserved aspartic residues to produce two subunits, large and small, that dimerize to form the active enzyme.
WN.com - Articles related to DTI favors zero tariffs on cement, wheat 2010
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Caspases exist as inactive proenzymes which undergo proteolytic processing by upstream caspases (caspase-8, -9) at conserved aspartic residues to produce two subunits, large and small, that dimerize to form the active enzyme in the form of
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They are synthesized and secreted as latent proenzymes and their activation is due to proteolytic cleavage of a propeptide domain at the N-terminus of the molecule.
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Transgenic switchgrass will be engineered with cell wall-degrading proenzymes that are dormant when the plant is in the field, but activated after harvest, under processing conditions with specific temperature and pH.
R&D Mag - News 2009
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Work in the field of proteolytic enzymes and their natural inhibitors has been continued and extended to many different inhibitor classes, proteases, their proenzymes, and complexes between them (with
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