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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: zymogen (0.00865 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to zymogen.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: zymogen
zymogen
n : any of a group of compounds that are inactive precursors of
enzymes and require some change (such as the hydrolysis
of a fragment that masks an active enzyme) to become
active [syn:
proenzyme]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Zymogen
Zymogen
\Zym"o*gen\, n. [Zyme + -gen.] (Physiol. Chem.)
A mother substance, or antecedent, of an enzyme or chemical
ferment; -- applied to such substances as, not being
themselves actual ferments, may by internal changes give rise
to a ferment.
[1913 Webster]
The pancreas contains but little ready-made ferment,
though there is present in it a body, zymogen, which
gives birth to the ferment. --Foster.
[1913 Webster]
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