Definition of Cathepsin
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Cathepsin
1.
Intracellular proteolytic enzymes of animal tissues, such as cathepsin B, a lysosomal thiol proteinase, C, dipeptidyl peptidase, D, that has pepsin like specificity, G, similar to chymotrypsin, H, that possesses aminopeptidase activity, N, that attacks N terminal peptides of collagen and so on.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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