enzyme

[ˈenzaɪm]

Definition:
1. A substance, produced by all living things, which helps a chemical change happen or happen more quickly, without being changed itself.
2. Any of several complex proteins that are produced by cells and act as catalysts in specific biochemical reactions.

Use 'enzyme' in a sentence:

1. Bertocchini agrees and hopes her team's findings might one day help employ the enzyme to break down plastics in landfills ．
2. Lysozyme is an enzyme found in egg white, tears, and other secretions.
3. Influence of microwave treatment on enzyme activities and quality of rice.
4. To different species source of Taxodium ascendens Brongn enzyme, scores of peroxidase and isozyme are different.
5. Effect of High Intensity Ultrasound Treatment on the Enzyme Activity in the Tumor.
6. The Improvement of the Experimental Methods of the Enzyme Characters.
7. The enzyme then relegates the ends of the cleaved strand and releases itself from the DNA.
8. Scientists in Britain and the United States have made a new kind of enzyme that eats plastics ().
9. Study on Intensifying Recovery of Crude Oil with Biological Enzyme.
10. The present disclosure provides ketoreductase enzymes having improved properties as compared to a naturally occurring wild-type ketoreductase enzyme.
11. Lysosomal enzymes are not normally found in the cytosol.
12. The enzyme is able to break down PET, a form of plastic.
13. The optimal water contents of enzyme reaction in hexcone was 0.06(W/V)%.
14. NSE was the target enzyme of Rutaceae oil, Carvacryl oil, Citronella oil and Mentha piperita oil.
15. John McGeehan, one of the lead researchers, said, "We've made an improved enzyme."
16. It made the natural enzyme's plastic-eating abilities work faster and better.
17. Express ancrod, a snake venom thrombin-like enzyme, in methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris.
18. He went on, "The enzyme is not harmful to humans or animals, and it is friendly to the environment."
19. The cross-linked enzyme aggregate can be applied to immobilization of proteinase, dextranase and the like.
20. Structural Parameters and Enzyme Model Catalytic Properties.
21. The researchers made the discovery while examining the structure of a natural enzyme in Japan.
22. The technique is based on beta-glucuronidase, an enzyme from the bacterium Escherichia coli.
23. Tampering with a single enzyme can lead to untoward effects elsewhere.
24. The change of antioxidant enzyme activity in Skeletonema costatum, Heterosigma akashiwo and Alexandrium tamarense under UV-B radiation enhancement were studied.
25. Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors.
26. So, they decided to make small changes to the enzyme by adding some amino acids.
27. When the enzyme turns on, the label fluoresces.
28. Cannabinoid production starts when an enzyme causes geranyl pyrophosphate and olivetolic acid.
29. Different substrate and concentration from Portunus trituberculatus will affect digestive enzyme activity.
30. This is an enzyme that protects DNA.
31. Application of in vitro method in selecting the enzyme complex formula.
32. Telomerase is the enzyme that builds telomeres.
33. Telomerase is an enzyme that is produced only in cells that are actively dividing.
34. The effects of the debranching enzyme were not evident.
35. An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of a galactoside.
36. The enzyme can break down several dyes, such as bromothymol blue, eriochrome black, malachite green, and reactive brilliant blue.
37. The team is now trying to make the enzyme break down PET in large quantities.
38. They were infected with bacteria producing the enzyme klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase.
39. But when we analyze these cells chemically, we find something very interesting, a chemical in them, an enzyme called telomerase.
40. They found that the natural enzyme was helping to break down PET plastics.
41. The natural enzyme is harmful to humans and animals.
42. The most specific visualization method is the localization of particular enzymes within an acrylamide gel.
43. The scientists are cautious about using enzyme therapy on humans.
44. People with Hunter syndrome lack the enzyme iduronate-2-sulfatase, which is essential for recycling complex carbohydrates.
45. This whole conversion process relies on a particular enzyme.
46. IL-10-cDNA fragment was obtained through cleaving pUC-T-IL-10cDNA by reconstriction enzymes.
47. Complement enzymes attack antigens by puncturing the cell membrane.
48. Plants also convert carbon dioxide into different forms of carbon-containing molecules and the conversion process used relies on the very same enzyme that works in humans.
49. Honey is basically a compound of water, two types of sugar, vitamins and enzymes.
50. The worm has a protective enzyme.
51. Is it an enzyme produced by the worm itself or by its gut microbes?
52. This enzyme would make the filtration of beer easier.
53. This is significant, because the amino acid sequence of an enzyme is determined by genes.
54. These enzymes are synthesized at the expense of reserve proteins mobilized in the aleurone vacuoles.
55. Instead this new enzyme incorporates another trace metal, cadmium.
56. Enzymes from normal ysosomes are exocytosed by some tissues.
57. It was demonstrated that the increase is due to de novo synthesis of fresh enzyme.