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enzyme

/en-zahym/US // ˈɛn zaɪm //UK // (ˈɛnzaɪm) //

酶,酶制剂,酵素,酶的作用

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Biochemistry.

    • : any of various proteins, as pepsin, originating from living cells and capable of producing certain chemical changes in organic substances by catalytic action, as in digestion.

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Examples

  • A good spray combines enzymes and ingredients that are safe for humans to tackle any unexpected excrement.

  • The end result is a high-quality and flavorful juice packed with all the enzymes, antioxidants, and vitamins of the original ingredients.

  • Unlike most biotech drugs, RNA is not made in fermenters or living cells—it’s produced inside plastic bags of chemicals and enzymes.

  • After some time teaching, she turned her research —developing the use of radioactive isotopes for precise measurements of biological chemicals in the body — from hormones and enzymes to vitamins and viruses.

  • Scientists then set about breeding wheat that was lower in these enzymes.

  • Women also make less of an enzyme called alcohol dehydrogenase, which breaks down alcohol before it hits the bloodstream.

  • In particular, “prolonged fasting reduced the enzyme PKA,” explains the USC announcement.

  • That life-giving source is the enzyme telomerase, which can actually lengthen telomeres.

  • It has nothing to do with aroma; the word refers to the enzyme aromatase.

  • The answer lies in polyphenol oxidase, an enzyme that combines with oxygen to speed up cellular decomposition.

  • Stevens obtained a nitrogenous oxidizing enzyme from Rhus vernicifera.

  • You will remember that starch in the growing corn grain was changed to grape sugar by an enzyme called diastase.

  • The digestion or change of starch to grape sugar is caused by the presence in the saliva of an enzyme, or digestive ferment.

  • By adding the enzyme maltase from yeast to a forty per cent.

  • Even the color of our hair and eyes depends on an enzyme which manufactures the coloring matter.