chymotrypsin in English

noun
1
a digestive enzyme that breaks down proteins in the small intestine. It is secreted by the pancreas and converted into an active form by trypsin.
Examples are the digestive enzymes trypsin and chymotrypsin , which only have enzymatic activity after the protein chain is cut and fragments of the protein removed.

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1. 16 The results were compared with those of bovine chymotrypsin.

2. Objective To observe the treatment effect of injecting chymotrypsin in chest for tuberculous pleurisy patients.

3. It was found to affect trypsin, chymotrypsin, plasmin, thrombin and some human skin proteases, especially those which hydrolyze casein, N-acetyl-l-tyrosine ethyl ester·HCl (ATEE) andl-tyrosine ethyl ester·HCl (TEE) at around pH 8.0.

4. Several Acylamido boronic acids and difluoroborane analogs of amino acids, some as single enantiomers, have been synthesized and evaluated as "transition state" inhibitors of the serine proteases (alpha)-chymotrypsin and elastase