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protease
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protease [′prōd·ē‚ās]
(cell and molecular biology)
An enzyme that digests proteins.


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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.
In this brief review we focus on the inhibitory activity of catechins derived from green tea toward proteases involved in tumor invasion.
Pea proteins are readily abundant ingredients, but little is known about the relationships between the actions of different proteases and the physicochemical or functional properties of the resulting protein hydrolysates.
 
 
 
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