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n. - Any of a group of compounds that are inactive precursors of enzymes and require some change (such as the hydrolysis of a fragment that masks an active enzyme) to become active.

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  • Trypsin itself then cleaves lysine peptide bonds, and so, once a small amount of trypsin is generated, it participates in cleavage of its own zymogen, generating – more...
  • Redman, David Sabatini and Yutaka Tashiro; it led to the characterization of the zymogen granules and to the discovery of the segregation of secretory products in the...
  • In such a model, cells secrete MMP-2 as an inactive zymogen (Pro-MMP-2) containing 8 disulphide bonds
  • Vande Haar penned a 12-verse epic in which he manages to rhyme words like "phospholipids," "hemorrhage" and "zymogen."
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