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Enzyme   /ˈɛnzˌaɪm/   Listen
Enzyme

noun
1.
Any of several complex proteins that are produced by cells and act as catalysts in specific biochemical reactions.



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"Enzyme" Quotes from Famous Books



... essentially to the sphere of activity of the warmth-ether.6 In the human organism we find the same sequence in the step-by-step transformation of nutriment right up to the moment when earthly form passes into chaos, as we learnt previously. The so-called enzyme action, ascribed by physiology to the various digestive juices, is in reality the product of an activity of the lower part of man's astral organization, for which the relevant juices exercise the function of physical 'carriers'. In the field of macrotelluric phenomena, the metamorphosis ...
— Man or Matter • Ernst Lehrs
... It may be that killing the bean makes its skin and cell walls more permeable to oxygen, but my theory is that when the bean is killed disintegration or weakening of the cell walls, etc., occurs, and, as a result, the enzyme and tannin, hitherto separate, become mixed, and hence able actively to absorb oxygen. The action of oxygen on the tannin also accounts for the loss of astringency on fermentation, and it may be well to point out that fermentation increases the internal surface of the bean exposed to ...
— Cocoa and Chocolate - Their History from Plantation to Consumer • Arthur W. Knapp
... into a peptone (water-soluble protein derivative produced by partial hydrolysis of a protein by an acid or enzyme ). Dissolve (food) by means of ...
— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter


Words linked to "Enzyme" :   nuclease, histaminase, proteinase, trypsin, nitrogenase, penicillinase, telomerase, cholinesterase, decarboxylase, papain, rennin, isomerase, amylase, transferase, muramidase, catalyst, Hyazyme, catalase, enterokinase, plasmin, cyclooxygenase, proteolytic enzyme, pepsin, active site, spreading factor, polymerase, ADA, complement, pepsinogen, de-iodinase, sod, cox, oxidoreductase, elastase, mao, lipase, accelerator, streptokinase, protein, urease, phosphatase, angiotensin converting enzyme, peptidase, monoamine oxidase, fibrinolysin, collagenase, superoxide dismutase, reductase, enzymatic, streptodornase, disaccharidase, kinase, beta-lactamase, hyaluronidase, adenosine deaminase, zymase, secretase, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor, chymosin, oxidase, coagulase, lysozyme, protease


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