NOUN
- the hydrolysis of proteins into peptides and amino acids by cleavage of their peptide bonds
How To Use proteolysis In A Sentence
- A protein resistant to heat and proteolysis that inhibits serine proteases was isolated from wheat leaf apoplasts.
- As a cheese ages, fats and proteins break down through proteolysis, into simplified units via bacterial or fungal actions.
- However, most proteolysis takes place in the duodenum as a consequence of enzyme activities secreted by the pancreas.
- Fermentation of sugars by plaque bacteria causes caries by decalcification and proteolysis of enamel and dentine
- The model system that was chosen to study proteolysis was degradation of abnormal hemoglobin in the reticulocyte which is the terminally differentiating red blood cell. Aaron Ciechanover - Autobiography
- One was obviously to further dissect the tyrosine aminotransferase (TAT) ATP-dependent proteolytic pathway: Avram started his own trip into the world of intracellular proteolysis with Gordon and discovered that the degradation of the gluconeogenetic enzyme TAT in cells requires energy. Aaron Ciechanover - Autobiography
- This is a cascade of proteolysis using a series of related factors. Behe's Test, Take 2
- PHD2 seems to be responsible for the hydroxylation, and hence the proteolysis of, HIF-α, PHD3 appears to hydroxylate the α-subunit during reoxygenation. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
- The model system that was chosen to study proteolysis was degradation of abnormal hemoglobin in the reticulocyte which is the terminally differentiating red blood cell. Aaron Ciechanover - Autobiography
- Keratin does not dissolve in cold or hot water and does not easily undergo proteolysis.
