cathepsin

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.

词形变化

cathepsins plural

词源

Borrowed from German Kathepsin, from Ancient Greek καθέψω (kathépsō), from κατά (katá, “down”) + ἕψω (hépsō, “boil”).
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