Definition of Proenzymes

1. Noun. (plural of proenzyme) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Proenzymes

1. proenzyme [n] - See also: proenzyme

Lexicographical Neighbors of Proenzymes

productresses
products
products of conception
prodynorphin
proedria
proem
proembryo
proemia
proemial
proemium
proemptosis
proems
proenkephalin
proenkephalins
proenzyme
proenzymes (current term)
proepicardial
proepicardium
proerythroblast
proestruses
proetid
proetids
proette
proettes
prof
proface
profamily
profanation
profanations

Literary usage of Proenzymes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry: For Students of Medicine and Physicians by Charles Edmund Simon (1904)
"The proenzymes here, as there, are formed through a specific activity on the part of the ... Whether or not the transformation of the proenzymes into the ..."

2. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry for Students of Medicine and Physicians by Charles Edmund Simon (1901)
"The proenzymes here, as there, are formée! through a specific activity on the part of the ... Whether or not the transformation of the proenzymes into the ..."

3. Lectures on Chemical Pathology in Its Relation to Practical Medicine by Christian Archibald Herter (1902)
"The formation of the proenzymes in the glandular epithelia appears to be closely ... During the period of secretory rest in which the proenzymes are formed, ..."

4. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry by Olof Hammarsten, Sven Gustaf Hedin (1914)
"These preliminary steps or mother substances of the enzymes have been called proenzymes or zymogens. These under certain conditions are changed into enzymes ..."

5. A Textbook of physiological chemistry by Olof Hammarsten (1906)
"... also isolated the proenzymes of both bodies and lias shown their different ... but as the proenzymes of both enzymes, pepsin and rennin, as well as the ..."

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