digestome

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

digest +‎ -ome

Noun[edit]

digestome (plural digestomes)

  1. (genetics, biochemistry) All the genes (and derived proteins) that relate to digestion (especially of complex carbohydrates)
    • 2008 September 13, Antero Salminen et al., “Amyloid-β oligomers set fire to inflammasomes and induce Alzheimer's pathology”, in Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine[1], volume 12, →DOI:
      Shao et al. [ 54 ] have screened the caspase-1 digestome to identify caspase target proteins.