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Definition of protease
: any of numerous enzymes that hydrolyze proteins and are classified according to the most prominent functional group (such as serine or cysteine) at the active site —called also proteinase
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As late as 1994, after more than a decade of organization and activism and research, the activists had split between centrists and radicals, and the new class of drugs, protease inhibitors, were failing in early clinical trials.
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HIV protease inhibitors, for example – for which there's sufficient knowledge to guide chemists' discovery efforts.
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