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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. any of a group of compounds that are inactive precursors of enzymes and require some change (such as the hydrolysis of a fragment that masks an active enzyme) to become active;
[syn: proenzyme, zymogen]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

proenzyme \pro"en*zyme\, n. [.] (Bioch.) Any one of a class of proteins that are converted, in the normal course of cellular metabolism, into one or more active enzymes; also called zymogen. The conversion usually is due to a specific cleavage of a peptide bond by another enzyme, or may be due to acid. [PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

proenzyme n 1: any of a group of compounds that are inactive precursors of enzymes and require some change (such as the hydrolysis of a fragment that masks an active enzyme) to become active [syn: proenzyme, zymogen]