English Explanatory Dictionary

4-methylumbelliferylguanidinobenzoate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A synthetic fluorogenic compound used as a laboratory substrate, designed to release a fluorescent signal when cleaved by specific enzymes (notably serine proteases), and commonly used in biochemical assays to measure enzyme activity.

Word forms

4-methylumbelliferylguanidinobenzoate
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