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- noun Plural form of
protease .
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Examples
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Apparently, antievolutionists do not believe in proteases and nucleases, as well as their prebiotic predecessors.
A Minimal Genome 2006
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Apparently, antievolutionists do not believe in proteases and nucleases, as well as their prebiotic predecessors.
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Apparently, antievolutionists do not believe in proteases and nucleases, as well as their prebiotic predecessors.
A Minimal Genome 2006
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Altered expression of particular proteases is a common hallmark of cancer, atherosclerosis and other diseases.
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Caspases are a kind of enzyme called proteases which are responsible for the breakdown of other proteins.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Christie Wilcox none@example.com 2010
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The majority of enzymes in the clotting cascade are serine proteases, that is, enzymes that cut up proteins using the amino acid serine as the key catalytic group.
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Cells use enzymes known as proteases to break down proteins into their component amino acids in the cytoplasm -- the fluid inside the cell's surface membrane.
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The explosive development of the art of organic synthesis has enabled Cram and Lehn to produce hosts that to some extent mimic enzymes such as proteases, ATP-ases and transacylases (see Fig. 2).
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Greenbaum said: "We always suspected that enzymes called proteases might be required to help parasites escape from the infected cell, but had assumed that these enzymes were produced by the parasites themselves.
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"We always suspected that enzymes called proteases might be required to help parasites escape from the infected cell, but had assumed that these enzymes were produced by the parasites themselves.
unknown title 2009
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