degradation
noun
the act of degrading.
degradative
-
a word derived from
degradation.
Example Sentences
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Autophagy is a cellular "housekeeping" process that promotes health by recycling or disposing of damaged DNA and RNA and other cellular components in a multi-step degradative process.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 4, 2024
For pathogens that escape this process, it is commonly thought that those pathogens must release a "secret arsenal" to "paralyze" the degradative machineries in the cell.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 1, 2023
Binding of TCRs with antigens activates CTLs to release perforin and granzyme, degradative enzymes that will induce apoptosis of the infected cell.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
