So denaturation is not death just like that, for life has put it functionally at its service. Various stock proteins, which can be mobilized at any time, are perhaps intermediate in this respect. One author holds that the protoplasm is involved in a subtle interaction of coagulation and anti-coagulation factors. This is acceptable if one wholly desubstantializes the concept "factor" here, and replaces it by denaturation and naturation processes.