ALL meanings of endopeptidase
- noun endopeptidase An enzyme that breaks peptide bonds other than terminal ones in a peptide chain. 1
- noun endopeptidase any proteolytic enzyme, such as pepsin, that splits a protein into smaller peptide fragments 0
- noun endopeptidase any enzyme, as pepsin, that starts to hydrolyze peptide bonds in the interior of a peptide chain 0
- noun endopeptidase (biochemistry) Any of a group of enzymes, such as trypsin, chymotrypsin, pepsin and elastase, which catalyze the splitting of polypeptide chains. 0