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cellulase
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cel·lu·lase (sly-ls, -lz)
n.
Any of several enzymes produced chiefly by fungi, bacteria, and protozoans that catalyze the hydrolysis of cellulose.


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The two companies already produce commercial cellulases for the textile industry, for such applications as weathering blue jeans.
They concluded that dietary fiber could either increase or decrease the rate of food passage through the gut, due either to its nonassimilable nature, or depending on which cellulases were present in the prawn digestive system.
Producing cellulases requires expenditure of the cell's energy currency, a molecule called ATP.
 
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