thermolysin

English

Etymology

From thermo- +‎ lysin.

Noun

thermolysin (countable and uncountable, plural thermolysins)

  1. (biochemistry) A thermostable neutral metalloproteinase enzyme produced by the gram-positive bacterium Bacillus thermoproteolyticus.
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