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cathepsins

cathepsins is the plural of cathepsin.

Meaning of cathepsin

Noun

cathepsin (plural cathepsins)

  1. Any of a family of proteases primarily active within lysosomes.
    • Grassmann and Dyckerhoff (1930) showed that cysteine and cyanide inhibited the action of ereptic aminopolyase, while they accelerated the action of proteases such as cathepsin.1931, A Pirie, BE Holmes, “The cause of inactivation of the Rous sarcoma filtrate during incubation”, in British journal of experimental pathology

Questions about cathepsins

What is cathepsins the plural of?
Cathepsins is the plural of cathepsin.

Words near cathepsins in the dictionary

  1. cathemerality
  2. cathenamine
  3. cathepsin
  4. cathepsine
  5. cathepsines
  6. cathepsins
  7. Cather
  8. catheretic
  9. catheretics
  10. Catherine
  11. Catherine Archipelago

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