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  • adjective Not of or pertaining to a substrate.

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non- +‎ substrate

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Examples

  • The enzymatic activity of the peripheral membrane protein, phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C (PI-PLC), is increased by nonsubstrate phospholipids with the extent of enhancement tuned by the membrane lipid composition.

    Journal of Biological Chemistry current issue Pu, M., Fang, X., Redfield, A. G., Gershenson, A., 2009

  • By generating chimeric proteins containing substrate and nonsubstrate regions, we identified two potentially independent mechanisms for targeting a protein for proteolysis.

    PLoS Biology: New Articles 2008

  • (B) APP CTFs are significantly elevated by DAPT but are unaffected by the expression of a nonsubstrate.

    PLoS Biology: New Articles 2008

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