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Model substrate

A synthetic substrate that often contains only the minimum necessary features to satisfy the specificity of the enzyme, but sometimes incorporates chemical features to facilitate detection of enzyme activity; e.g. a p-nitrophenyl ester as an endopeptidase substrate, as the p-nitrophenolate product is intensely colored.

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