Definition of "zymogen" []

• See proenzyme. (noun)

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• "Trypsin itself then cleaves lysine peptide bonds, and so, once a small amount of trypsin is generated, it participates in cleavage of its own zymogen, generating – more trypsin!"
• "Redman, David Sabatini and Yutaka Tashiro; it led to the characterization of the zymogen granules and to the discovery of the segregation of secretory products in the cisternal space of the endoplasmic reticulum."
• "It may very likely produce the same change in the membrane that is caused by the entrance of the spermatozoon under normal circumstances -- membrane formation may be necessarily coincident with the liberation in the egg of some zymose which arises from a pre-existent zymogen."