peptidase in English

noun
1
an enzyme that breaks down peptides into amino acids.
Some bacteria naturally have more of these protease and peptidase enzymes than other bacteria, so careful characterization is necessary to select the strains with the highest level of the desired enzymes.

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1. Summary: Bleomycin hydrolase (BMH) is a cytoplasmic cysteine peptidase that is highly conserved through evolution; however, the only

2. Lysosomal enzymes such as acid phosphatase and amino-peptidase were found in giant cells which is in agreement with former work.

3. 12 Tripeptidyl peptidase II is found in all eukaryotic cells, which are cells that a have membrane-bound nucleus.

4. For enzyme stability test, the Bacteriocin was stable after treatment with lysozyme, lipase, catalase and lyticase but showed reduction of the activity after treatment with proteinase K, trypsin and peptidase.

5. In this chapter, the authors show that in the symbiosis‐defective dnf1 of Medicago truncatula, Bacteroid, and symbiosome development are blocked.The dnf1 gene was identified as encoding a subunit of a signal peptidase complex that is highly expressed in nodules.

6. A peptidase capable of cleaving N-terminal dipeptides from arginyl-arginine naphthylamide (Arg-Arg-NA), leucyl-alanine naphthylamide as well as from alanyl-alanyl-alanyl-alanine (but not alanyl-alanyl-alanine) was partially purified from rat skin homogenate by employing chromatography on DEAE-cellulose, gel filtration on Sephadex G-100 and DEAE-Sephadex.