chymotrypsin

English

Etymology

From chyme +‎ -o- +‎ trypsin.

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Noun

chymotrypsin (countable and uncountable, plural chymotrypsins)

  1. (biochemistry) An endopeptidase enzyme that cleaves peptides at the carboxyl side of tyrosine, tryptophan, and phenylalanine amino acids.

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