clostripain

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of a family of proteinases that cleaves proteins on the carboxyl peptide bond of arginine.

Word forms

clostripain clostripains

Etymology

It was isolated from Clostridium histolyticum.

Related words

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