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Medical Term:

antitumor enzyme

 

Definition: an enzyme that stimulates the degradation of a particular metabolite that cannot be synthesized by tumor cells, inhibits the synthesis of a metabolite needed by tumor cells, or inhibits tumor-specific DNA utilization, asparaginase.

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