zymogen
A proenzyme; an inactive precursor of an enzyme, e.g. trypsiongen. Often, the zymogen is proteolytically activated by an endonuclease. In the case of some aspartate proteases, an acid-catalyzed rearrangement allows cleavage and removal of an inhibitory C-terminal sequence, the prosegment.
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