prodomain

English

Etymology

From pro- +‎ domain.

Noun

prodomain (plural prodomains)

1. A domain of a proprotein
   • 2015 August 29, “An Engineered Split Intein for Photoactivated Protein Trans -Splicing”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     When a prodomain is cleaved from inactive Casp7 by upstream caspases, it undergoes auto-proteolysis into a p20 subunit (fragment containing residues 57–198) and p11 subunit (207–303) that associate to form an active Casp7 [48 ].