procathepsin

English

Etymology

From pro- +‎ cathepsin.

Noun

procathepsin (plural procathepsins)

1. (biochemistry) Any of a family of proteins that are involved in the production of cathepsins
   • 2015 December 17, “An Active 32-kDa Cathepsin L Is Secreted Directly from HT 1080 Fibrosarcoma Cells and Not via Lysosomal Exocytosis”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     The activity was estimated by reducing the incubation time to 2 min to avoid procathepsin L activation [17 ,19 ].

Derived terms

• preprocathepsin