"enzyme" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it when referring to a biological catalyst, usually a protein, that speeds up a chemical reaction in living things. For example, "The enzyme catalase breaks down hydrogen peroxide into oxygen and water."
When they were fed vast amounts of sugar, an enzyme in their kidneys reacted with the fructose in a way that was "like a little bomb".
These help a mitochondrial enzyme called carnitine acetyltransferase to do its job.
Such helpers are often B vitamins, and the diseases were often treatable with large doses of the appropriate vitamin.The enzyme damage in these diseases is similar to that induced by oxidation, so Dr Ames suspects that its effects, too, can be ameliorated by high doses of vitamins.
He also reviewed the work of other people and found about 50 genetic diseases caused by the failure of one enzyme or another to link up with an appropriate helper molecule.
He also knew that wheat has an enzyme called oxalate oxidase, which detoxifies oxalic acid.
Boosting their levels seems to compensate for oxidative damage to this enzyme.
It works by focusing on an enzyme involved in making the cell wall of a bacterium.
Preliminary experiments led her to focus on one, called Olfr78, and also on a second receptor protein, Gpr41, that is not found in the nose.The kidneys help to control blood pressure via an enzyme called renin, which increases it.
He armed his modified E. coli with an enzyme called DNase I. Curiously, a lot of the chemical links holding individual P. aeruginosa bacteria together in a biofilm are made of DNA, a molecule more familiar as the material of genes.
PCR employs an enzyme called DNA-polymerase to duplicate DNA molecules in a similar fashion to the way they multiply naturally (by stringing together sequences of the chemical bases of which DNA is composed, using the existing DNA as a reference).
Individuals differ in their enzyme activity, and thus, in their ability to metabolise caffeine".
