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What does enzyme mean?

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Noun
  1. (biochemistry) A globular protein that catalyses a biological chemical reaction.
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The patient's angiotensin-converting enzyme level was slightly elevated, and the rapid plasma reagin test was nonreactive.
In the normal lymphoid ontogeny, genomic recombinations occur in a tightly regulated sequence and require an enzyme called recombinase.
The cAMP is produced by adenylate cyclase, and that enzyme is activated by phosphorylated IIA Glc.
Malic enzyme catalyses the reductive decarboxylation of malate to pyruvate.
Sugar is taken and in the presence of an enzyme ethyl alcohol and carbon dioxide are produced.
The polyol pathway uses the enzyme aldose reductase to convert glucose to sorbitol.

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