An enzyme or biological agent that breaks down or hydrolyzes calcium compounds or calcium-containing structures.
From Latin 'calcis' (calcium/lime) combined with the suffix '-clase' (meaning to break or cleave), following the pattern of enzyme nomenclature.
Calciclase is nature's solution to a tricky problem: how do organisms remove calcium deposits without damaging themselves?—some bacteria literally evolved an enzyme to digest limestone!
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