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holoenzyme

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holoenzyme /holo·en·zyme/ (-en´zīm) the active compound formed by combination of a coenzyme and an apoenzyme.
hol·o·en·zyme (hl-nzm, hl-)
n.
An active, complex enzyme consisting of an apoenzyme and a coenzyme.

holoenzyme
[hol′ō·en′zīm]
Etymology: Gk, holos + en, in, zymos, ferment
a complete enzyme-cofactor complex that gives rise to full catalytic activity.

holoenzyme [hol″o-en´zīm]
the active compound formed by combination of a coenzyme and an apoenzyme.

holoenzyme
an enzyme which contains several different subunits and retains some activity even when one or more of the subunits is missing.


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These include recently developed methods having widespread application, such as targeting the telomerase holoenzyme, its RNA template, and other elements associated with telomerase activity.
Methods employing recombinant glycosylated holoenzyme as the antigen with high degree of purity and consistency provide more reliability in the detection of intrinsic factor antibodies.
16,17) The eukaryotic cell cycle is driven forward by cyclins, which form holoenzymes together with their cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) partners.
 
 
 
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