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What does proteolytic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (biochemistry) Of, relating to, or promoting proteolysis
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These implicate the proteolytic enzyme elastase and cell surface adhesion molecules, and provide a basis for the investigation of potential novel therapies.
This category contains phospholipids, proteolytic enzymes, proteinases, proteases, and peptidases.
Vitamin B12 occurs in a bound form in food and is liberated by proteolytic activity in the stomach and small intestine.
Most notably, there are the proteolytic enzymes trypsin and chymotrypsin, which our bodies make.
This author, however, associates their activity with proteolytic rather than with carbohydrate metabolism.
Once the IF is attached, further proteolytic digestion of the bound vitamin is prevented.

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