Converse of subject

• cleave: Many of these proteins are also cleaved by proteases, and these enzyme activities are targets of drugs that stop invasion.

Converse of object

• secrete: A protease secreted by the ameba is important in the development of the disease.

• involve: Identification of a serine protease involved with the regulation of adrenal growth.

• produce: The serine proteases produced by D. congolensis fall into all three categories.

• call: It is a type of protein, called a protease, which acts like a pair of biological scissors to break down other proteins.

• use: Restriction enzymes used to cut DNA; Proteases used when extracting DNA.

• include: Pseudomonas are highly motile and posses multiple virulence factors including proteases and exotoxins.

Adjective modifier

• hiv-1: It holds a number of helices and sheets which are shown in the following objects: MOL1: The complete structure of HIV-1 Protease.

• viral: The new drugs inhibit or interfere with the viral protease.

• specific: We are developing new methods, for instance using cleavage by highly specific proteases, to inactivate proteins in fission yeast.

• various: Various proteases show specificity for peptide bonds that are located between particular amino acid residues.

• different: Current efforts are therefore directed at the development of polymers that are degraded specifically by different proteases.

Modifies a noun

• inhibitor: In the first place, protease inhibitors are still too new.

• tipranavir: Tipranavir licensed in Europe Boehringer Ingelheim's novel protease inhibitor tipranavir ( Aptivus ) received European approval on 25 October.

• ritonavir: The HIV protease inhibitor ritonavir can cause a large increase in the blood level of sildenafil.

• enzyme: There are two main types of protease enzymes involved in human digestion.

• digestion: Discussion It seemed likely at first that the protease digestion of the strawberries had not been successful.

• mutation: Of these 21, 13 were shown to have protease inhibitor resistance mutations at the beginning of the three-month break.

Noun used with modifier

• serine: The serine protease factor B is central in the alternative pathway of activation.

• cysteine: Preliminary evidence suggests increased activity of a broad spectrum cysteine protease.