destabilase

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noun

A form of lysozyme (isopeptidase) found in the secretions from the salivary glands of medicinal leeches

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Meanings

noundestabilase (countable and uncountable, plural destabilases)

plural destabilases

  1. countableuncountablebiochemistryA form of lysozyme (isopeptidase) found in the secretions from the salivary glands of medicinal leeches

    Amino acid residues contributing to substrate binding are indicated by empty circles, those contributing to destabilase activity are indicated by black diamonds and those contributing to a potential dimerization are indicated by empty squares.

    2016 February 17, “Multiple I-Type Lysozymes in the Hydrothermal Vent Mussel Bathymodiolus azoricus and Their Role in Symbiotic Plasticity”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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