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What is a cathepsin?

What is a cathepsin? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biochemistry) Any of a family of proteases primarily active within lysosomes.
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Odanacatib is a cathepsin K inhibitor that selectively inhibits the cathepsin K enzyme.
Additional indentation tests were performed at the nanometer and micrometer scales on native articular cartilage to study the effects of the enzymes cathepsin D and elastase.
Virobay also initiated clinical studies with VBY-891, a selective cathepsin inhibitor in March of this year.
The presence in wheat kernels of a cathepsin B gene led the search for its barley counterpart.
They are the chymase, chymotrypsin, angiotensin generating enzyme and cathepsin D pathways.
Medivir presented preclinical data on two candidate drugs from its cathepsin K inhibitor program in a poster session during the ASBMR meeting.

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