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Definition of Proteolytic enzyme
1. Noun. Any enzyme that catalyzes the splitting of proteins into smaller peptide fractions and amino acids by a process known as proteolysis.
Specialized synonyms: Caspase, Ace, Angiotensin Converting Enzyme, Angiotensin-converting Enzyme, Plasminogen Activator, Urokinase, Renin
Generic synonyms: Enzyme
Lexicographical Neighbors of Proteolytic Enzyme
Literary usage of Proteolytic enzyme
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biochemical Catalysts in Life and Industry: Proteolytic Enzymes by Jean Effront (1917)
"This proteolytic enzyme liquefies and hydrolyzes gelatin, but does not attack
coagulated albumin. Fibrin and, better still, albumin of blood serum are ..."
2. Physiological chemistry: A Text-book and Manual for Students by Albert Prescott Mathews (1916)
"In the mucosa of the stomach there may be, and no doubt are, more than one
proteolytic enzyme. There can hardly be a doubt that the mucosa of the stomach ..."
3. A Text-book of Human Physiology by Robert Adolph Armand Tigerstedt, John Raymond Murlin (1906)
"B. THE proteolytic enzyme, TRYPSIN, is distinguished from pepsin mainly by the
fact that it digests ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1902)
"SH Vines, at a meeting of the Linnean Society, gave some account of his investigations
of the proteolytic enzyme of Nepenthes, for which, just as the enzyme ..."
5. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1902)
"SH Vines, gave some account of his investigation of the proteolytic enzyme of
Nepenthes. He began by pointing out that in the higher animals there are ..."
6. A Text-book of the Physiological Chemistry of the Animal Body: Including an by Arthur Gamgee (1893)
"THE proteolytic enzyme—TRYPSIN. Historical notes on the discovery of the property
of the Pancreatic Juice to dissolve and digest ..."
7. The Principles of Bacteriology: A Practical Manual for Students and Physicians by Alexander Crever Abbott (1921)
"The most familiar indications of the formation of a proteolytic enzyme are seen
in the ... Most frequently the proteolytic enzyme is allied to trypsin, ..."
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