prohormone
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of prohormone
Example Sentences
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A single prohormone can be cut in several different ways, producing many possible peptides.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
Peptide Predictor estimated that prohormone convertase 1/3 could produce 2,683 distinct peptides from those 373 proteins.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
Because each prohormone can be split in many different ways, identifying useful peptide hormones using traditional lab methods is extremely challenging.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 12, 2026
Furthermore, in the rare familial neurodegenerative disease diabetes insipidus, amyloid aggregation of the prohormone provasopressin in the endoplasmic reticulum causes endoplasmic reticulum stress that results in cellular death111.
From Nature ● Nov. 8, 2016
Each of the predicted secretory prohormone was selected based on its unique and/or highly differential expression pattern as revealed by RNA-seq profiling.
From Nature ● May 20, 2014
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