Meaning of scissible | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Capable of being cut by a sharp instrument.
2. That can be severed or broken (often by a specific enzyme or catalyst).

Examples

“The differences of impressible and not impressible, figurable and not figurable, mouldable and not mouldable, scissible and not scissible, and many other passions of matter⟳, are plebeian notions, applied unto the instruments and uses which men ordinarily practice .”

“The herein described article comprising a rolled-up sheet of thin soft material coated with an adhesive substance, stiffening strips of scissible material secured to opposite ends of the sheet , a plurality of suspension loops secured to one end⟳ of the sheet. and a wrapper of scissible material inclosing the body o fhte sheet with the suspension loops projecting therefrom andd serving to indicate⟳ the lines upon which the article can be severed into a plurality of individual fly⟳ catchers, weach including a portion of the sheet, one of the suspension loops, and a section of the wrapper.”

“The former need⟳ the presence of either a free α-NH₂ or a α-COOH group adjacent to scissible bond, whereas the latter cleaves peptide bonds of the polypeptide chain distant to the termini.”

“This latter Ca²⁺ site, of unknown location, is influenced by Asp residues at P3(D¹⁶⁷0 and P3' (D¹⁷²) of the scissible activation peptide bond of PC”

“It indicates that energy requirements for elastolysis by elastases are similar to most enzyme-catalyzed reactions, suggesting that scissible peptide bonds in elastin are accessible to these elastases.”

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