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  • noun biochemistry A multi-protein complex, present in most bacteria, that is involved in the degradation of mRNA

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  • I was told design cannot explain why a glycolytic enzyme is part of the degradosome.

    A Life Code? 2008

  • For example, there is a distinctive ID hypothesis that predicts that the degradosome functions as a prong in enolase.

    ID Research, Look to the Example 2005

  • These machines are ribosomes Splicosomen, degradosome, protein complexes in DNA replication play a role (eg, helicase and DNA polymerase, the F1/F0-ATPase, the kinesin-machinery and much more (for B.

    Flagellum evolution -- how's your German? - The Panda's Thumb 2010

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