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What is a protease?

What is a protease? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biochemistry) An enzyme that cuts or cleaves proteins.
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The expression of this gene is associated with concomitant changes in cysteine protease activity of the petals.
Degradation of fibrin clots is the function of plasmin, a serine protease that circulates as the inactive proenzyme, plasminogen.
The active site of the homodimeric HIV-1 protease includes six amino acids.
Treatments that have been studied but that show no clear benefit include atropine, glucagon, calcitonin and protease inhibitors.
Most of the acidic protease activity of a higher plant cell resides in the central vacuole.
This is probably due to the presence of other enzymes besides the protease.

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