See Also: PPIase(medicine)

debonair (oh) and PPIase (medicine)


debonair (oh)



[Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: de bonne aire 'of good family or Nature']
a man who is debonair is fashionable and confident

PPIase (medicine)


PPIase
<enzyme> That accelerate protein folding by catalysing cis trans isomerisations. Immunophilins are PPIases though their enzymic activity may not be essential for their immunosuppressive effects.