Etymology

clostripain

C3L1O1S1T1R1I1P3A1I1N1

Today it means: Any of a family of proteinases that cleaves proteins on the carboxyl peptide bond of arginine. Full definition →

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The story

It was isolated from Clostridium histolyticum.

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