Associations to the word «Proteolysis»

Wiktionary

PROTEOLYSIS, noun. (biochemistry) The hydrolysis of proteins into peptides and amino acids; especially as part of the digestion of food.

Dictionary definition

PROTEOLYSIS, noun. The hydrolysis of proteins into peptides and amino acids by cleavage of their peptide bonds.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope