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Definition of Endoenzyme

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Endoenzyme

1. An enzyme which is not secreted or exported out of the cell, but is kept and used by the cell which made it. Compare: ectoenzyme. An enzyme that makes bonds within polymers (chains of similar units). (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Endoenzyme

Literary usage of Endoenzyme

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

1. Recent Advances in Physiology and Bio-chemistry by Leonard Hill, Benjamin Moore (1908)
"He considers that there exists in the liver cells an endoenzyme capable of converting glycogen into maltose, just as there exists in yeast an ..."

2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1908)
"I am inclined to believe that the retention of the enzyme as an endoenzyme up to the moment of ripening, has a deeper physiological significance than to be ..."

3. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1920)
"... is an endoenzyme, its absence in nitrates during the period of active growth ... is a true endoenzyme. ..."

4. Intracellular Enzymes: A Course of Lectures Given in the Physiological by Horace Middleton Vernon (1908)
"... if the hypothesis of correlation between endoenzyme and functional capacity be valid, one would expect to find creatin- forming and creatin-destroying ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1916)
"... due probably to the fact that, like so many of the bacterial enzymes, it is present as an endoenzyme and can only be extracted by high pressures. ..."

6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"... matisch (intracellular) zur Geltung kommt (endoenzyme) " (p. 254). After a review of the literature on the comparative chemistry of nutrition, ..."

7. A Text-book of General Bacteriology by Edwin Oakes Jordan (1918)
"The intracellular toxins have been compared in this respect to the zymase of the yeast-cell, which is a typical endoenzyme, and is not found in the ..."

8. Physiological chemistry: A Text-book and Manual for Students by Albert Prescott Mathews (1916)
"... which does not dissolve out of the yeast cell as long as it is alive and is accordingly called an endoenzyme. It was obtained by Buchner by grinding the ..."

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