Endopeptidase: An enzyme that catalyzes the cleavage of peptide bonds within a polypeptide or protein. Peptidase refers to the fact that it acts on peptide bonds and endopeptidase refers to the fact that these are internal bonds. An exopeptide catalyzes the cleavage of the terminal or penultimate peptide bond, releasing a single amino acid or dipeptide from the peptide chain.
Library > Literature & Language > Dictionary ( Ä•n ' dÅ-pÄ•p ' tÄ-dÄs ' , -dÄz ' ) n. Any of a large group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of peptide ...
endopeptidase /en·do·pep·ti·dase/ (-pep´tÄ-dÄs) protease; any peptidase that catalyzes the cleavage of internal bonds in a polypeptide or protein.
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noun Biochemistry . an enzyme that catalyzes the cleavage of a polypeptide or protein at interior positions of the amino acid chain. Origin: 1935–40; endo ...
Research Overproduction of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens extracellular glutamyl-endopeptidase as a result of ectopic multi-copy insertion of an efficiently-expressed mpr gene ...