abbauen aus dem kontraktilen Apparat

21:19 Nov 25, 2009 

I second them in that the term release is not appropriate for abbauen in your German source sentence. release is -> freisetzen, abgeben, sezernieren, u.ä. - but not abbauen. Release is also a more active mechanism, abbauen is more passive (wird abgebaut).

21:08 Nov 25, 2009 

abbauen, Abbau -> degradation, so for the English sentence structure you may omit the noun degradation, and it should read: "... can only be proteolytically degraded of the contractile apparatus after irreversible cell damage (or also: cell destruction?) , or something along these lines.

Alternatively for degraded: "be proteolytically disassembled of ...."

In this context, proteolysis and disassembly of the contractile ring and degradation appear in this article -> http://www.molbiolcell.org/cgi/reprint/16/1/193 (see page 8 of the pdf file).

15:51 Nov 24, 2009 

= protein