Collagenase

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An enzyme that breaks the peptide bonds in collagen.
  2. 2
    any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of collagen and gelatin wordnet

Etymology

From collagen + -ase.

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peptide bond

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