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cysteine protease activity

Known as: cysteine-type peptidase activity, thiol protease activity 
Catalysis of the hydrolysis of peptide bonds in a polypeptide chain by a mechanism in which the sulfhydryl group of a cysteine residue at the active… 
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CASP10 protein, humanCysteine EndopeptidasesCysteine Proteasescaspase-10

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2013
2013
Role of cysteine-protease CGHC motifs of ER-60, a protein disulfide isomerase, in hepatic apolipoprotein B100 degradation.
2008
2008
Changes in the Plasmodial Surface Anion Channel Reduce Leupeptin Uptake and Can Confer Drug Resistance in Plasmodium falciparum-Infected Erythrocytes
ABSTRACT Cysteine protease inhibitors kill malaria parasites and are being pursued for development as antimalarial agents… 
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Recombinant Der p 1 and Der f 1 exhibit cysteine protease activity but no serine protease activity.
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
β‐Amyloid peptide in regulated secretory vesicles of chromaffin cells: evidence for multiple cysteine proteolytic activities in distinct pathways for β‐secretase activity in chromaffin vesicles
A key factor in Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the β‐secretase activity that is required for the production of beta‐amyloid (A… 
2001
2001
Cysteine protease activity is up-regulated in inflamed ankle joints of rats with adjuvant-induced arthritis and decreases with in vivo administration of a vinyl sulfone cysteine protease inhibitor.
OBJECTIVE Cysteine proteases are postulated to play a role in tissue destruction in the joints of animals with arthritis. The… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
A sensitive fluorescent assay for measuring the cysteine protease activity of Der p 1, a major allergen from the dust mite Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus.
The potent allergenicity of Der p 1, a major allergen of the house dust mite Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus, is thought to be… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Evidence for participation of a calpain-like cysteine protease in cell cycle progression through late G1 phase.
Recent studies have demonstrated that cell-permeant protease inhibitors arrest human fibroblasts in late G1. The target for the… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
The calpain-calpastatin system and cellular proliferation and differentiation in rodent osteoblastic cells.
The calpain-calpastatin system, which consists of calpains I and II (two ubiquitously distributed calcium-activated papain-like… 
1987
1987
Thiol protease and cathepsin D activities in selected tissues and cultured cells from normal and dystrophic mice.
Thiol protease and cathepsin D activities were studied in extracts from hindlimb muscle of 60-day-old normal and dystrophic mice… 
1986
1986
Evidence for a defective thiol protease inhibitor in skeletal muscle of mice with hereditary muscular dystrophy.
The thiol protease inhibitor (TPI-d) from hind-limb skeletal muscle of dystrophic 60-day-old male mice (strain 129/ReJ/dy) has… 
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