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Peptidase

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of peptides into amino acids; a protease.
  2. 2
    any enzyme that catalyzes the splitting of proteins into smaller peptide fractions and amino acids by a process known as proteolysis wordnet

Etymology

From peptide + -ase.

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