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zymogen
(redirected from Enzyme precursors)

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zy·mo·gen (zm-jn)
n.
See proenzyme.
zymogen
an inactive precursor that is converted into an active enzyme by action of an acid or another enzyme or by other means; a proenzyme.
zymogen cells
the secretory cells that secrete the zymogens.
zymogen granules
contained in the cytoplasm of the secretory cells in the relevant gland. Contain the zymogen.


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1985a), observed vesicles budding from Golgi bodies in the F-cells of fed green tiger prawn Penaeus semisulcatus and suggested that these vesicles were enzyme precursors or zymogens, but this is yet to be confirmed or observed in other penaeids (Dall 1992, Icely & Nott 1992).
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