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• Enzyme inhibitor — Enzyme inhibitors are molecules that bind to enzymes and decrease their activity. Since blocking an enzyme s activity can kill a pathogen or correct a metabolic imbalance, many drugs are enzyme inhibitors. They are also used as herbicides and… …   Wikipedia

• Enzyme — Biocatalyst redirects here. For the use of natural catalysts in organic chemistry, see Biocatalysis. Human glyoxalase I. Two zinc ions that are needed for the enzyme to catalyze its reaction are shown as purp …   Wikipedia

• pro-enzyme — Enzyme that does not have full (or any) function until an inhibitory sequence has been removed by limited proteolysis. See also zymogen …   Dictionary of molecular biology

• Digestive enzyme — Digestive enzymes are enzymes that break down polymeric macromolecules into their smaller building blocks, in order to facilitate their absorption by the body. Digestive enzymes are found in the digestive tract of animals (including humans) where …   Wikipedia

• Cholinesterase enzyme — protein Name = acetylcholinesterase (Yt blood group) caption = Diagram of Pacific electric ray acetylcholinesterase. From PDB|1EA5. width = 200 HGNCid = 108 Symbol = ACHE AltSymbols = YT EntrezGene = 43 OMIM = 100740 RefSeq = NM 015831 UniProt =… …   Wikipedia

• Immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibitory motif — An immunoreceptor tyrosine based inhibition motif (ITIM), is a conserved sequence of amino acids (S/I/V/LxYxxI/V/L) that is found in the cytoplasmic tails of many inhibitory receptors of the immune system. After ITIM possessing inhibitory… …   Wikipedia

• Deubiquitinating enzyme — Deubiquitinating enzymes (DUBs) are a large group of proteases[1] (more than 60 known) that regulate ubiquitin dependent metabolic pathways by cleaving ubiquitin protein bonds. DUBs are also commonly referred to as deubiquitinating peptidases,… …   Wikipedia

• Maturation promoting factor — (abbreviated MPF, also called mitosis promoting factor or M Phase promoting factor) is a heterodimeric protein composed of cyclin B and cyclin dependent kinase (CDK1, also known as Cdc2 or p34 kinase) that stimulates the mitotic and meiotic cell… …   Wikipedia

• antienzyme — An agent or principle that retards, inhibits, or destroys the activity of an enzyme; may be an inhibitory enzyme or an antibody to an enzyme ( e.g., serum antitrypsin). * * * an·ti·en·zyme en .zīm …   Medical dictionary

• Serpin — Serpins are a group of proteins with similar structures that were first identified as a set of proteins able to inhibit proteases. The name serpin is derived from this activity serine protease inhibitors. [cite journal |author=R. Carrell and J.… …   Wikipedia

• ACE inhibitors drug design — The discovery of an orally inactive peptide from snake venom established the important role of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors in regulating blood pressure. This lead to the development of Captopril, the first ACE inhibitor. When… …   Wikipedia