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A crystalline proteinase known in several forms that occurs in the pancreas and has the ability to clot milk.

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  • The chymotrypsin crystals were twinned and therefore difficult to work with, and so Perutz continued with haemoglobin.
  • Northrop, however, managed to crystalize three digestive enzymes, pepsin, trypsin and chymotrypsin, and by painstaking experiments shown them to be pure proteins.
  • In 1929 he isolated pepsin in pure crystalline form by techniques which were later used by himself and other workers to crystallize trypsin, chymotrypsin,...
  • Proteinase inhibitors, affecting trypsin and chymotrypsin, have been found in seeds of A. cowleana and other species. but only at levels similar to those found in peas...
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  • This word was used in the 2006 Scripps National Spelling Bee finals.
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