enzyme
English
editEtymology
editFrom German Enzym, coined 1878 by the German physiologist Wilhelm Kühne from Ancient Greek ἐν (en, “in”) + ζύμη (zúmē, “sourdough”).
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈɛn.zaɪm/
- Rhymes: -aɪm
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Hyphenation: en‧zyme
Noun
editenzyme (countable and uncountable, plural enzymes)
- (biochemistry) A biomolecule that catalyses a biological chemical reaction: either a globular protein with this function or an RNA molecule with this function.
- Hypernym: biocatalyst
- Hyponym: ribozyme
- (strictly) The protein type specifically.
- Hypernym: biocatalyst
- Hyponym: see list
- Coordinate term: ribozyme
- (Christianity) Leavened bread, as opposed to azyme.
Usage notes
editBefore 1980, protein enzymes were the only known type, so the word enzyme invariably meant that type. Since RNA catalysis was discovered, ribozymes are often viewed as a type of enzyme (in the newer and broader sense of the word), but even today, their name is often used coordinately with the stricter sense.
Derived terms
edit- abzyme
- adaptive enzyme
- alloenzyme
- allozyme
- angiotensin-converting enzyme
- angiotensin converting enzyme
- angiotensin converting enzyme 1
- angiotensin converting enzyme 2
- antienzyme
- antizyme
- apoenzyme
- chemzyme
- coenzyme
- cuproenzyme
- ecoenzyme
- ectoenzyme
- electroenzyme
- endoenzyme
- enzybiotic
- enzymatic
- enzyme-inducing medication
- enzyme-inhibiting medication
- enzyme inhibitor
- enzymeless
- enzymelike
- enzymic
- enzymogenesis
- enzymoimmunoassay
- enzymology
- enzymolysis
- enzymopathy
- enzymosis
- enzymuria
- exoenzyme
- flavoenzyme
- granzyme
- haloenzyme
- heteroenzyme
- holoenzyme
- isoenzyme
- isozyme
- lysozyme
- macroenzyme
- mechanoenzyme
- megaenzyme
- metalloenzyme
- molybdoenzyme
- multienzyme
- nanoenzyme
- nanozyme
- necroenzyme
- neoenzyme
- nonenzyme
- phosphoenzyme
- photoenzyme
- plastizyme
- proenzyme
- pseudoenzyme
- restriction enzyme
- ribozyme
- selenoenzyme
- seroenzyme
- synzyme
- theozyme
- thermoenzyme
- thioenzyme
- tungstoenzyme
Related terms
editTranslations
editcatalytic protein
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Further reading
editFrench
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek ἐν (en, “in”) + ζύμη (zúmē, “sourdough”).
Noun
editenzyme m or f (plural enzymes)
Verb
editenzyme
- inflection of enzymer:
Further reading
edit- “enzyme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
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