Chymosin

Word CHYMOSIN
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The milk-curdling ferment of the gastric juice. Also called rennin. noun

The proteolytic enzyme rennin noun

An enzyme that occurs in gastric juice; causes milk to coagulate noun

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The word "chymosin" in example sentences

Now, by means of genetic engineering, modern biotechnology produces a pure version of the same calf enzyme, called chymosin, in a bacterium, a mold, and a yeast. ❋ Harold McGee (2004)

The Curdling Specialist Traditional rennet is made from the fourth stomach or abomasum of a milk-fed calf less than 30 days old, before chymosin is replaced by other protein-digesting enzymes. ❋ Harold McGee (2004)

The curdling of milk by the rennet enzyme chymosin. ❋ Harold McGee (2004)

Caseinolytic specificity of cardosin, an aspartic protease from the cardoon: Action on bovine casein and comparison with chymosin. ❋ Harold McGee (2004)

Where other enzymes attack most proteins at many points and break them into many pieces, chymosin effectively attacks only one milk protein, and at just one point. ❋ Harold McGee (2004)

Recent research has revealed that Iberian shepherds had indeed found a close biochemical relative of calf chymosin, which the thistle flower happens to concentrate in its stigmas. ❋ Harold McGee (2004)

By clipping these pieces off, chymosin allows the casein particles to bond to each other and form a continuous solid gel, the curd. ❋ Harold McGee (2004)

• High whey value due to high specificity of the chymosin CHY-MAX® M produces the purest whey for processing into valuable whey protein concentrates or isolates. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Some alternative sources of chymosin are plants, especially thistles and nettles and microbes like fungi and yeasts.

CHY-MAX M, Chr Hansen's 2nd generation fermentation-produced chymosin (FPC) is superior to its 20-year-old big brother CHY-MAX in several ways. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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