Cellular depletion of major cathepsin proteases reveals their concerted activities for lysosomal proteolysis

L Gallwitz, F Bleibaum, M Voss, M Schweizer… - Cellular and molecular …, 2024 - Springer
Proteins delivered by endocytosis or autophagy to lysosomes are degraded by exo-and
endoproteases. In humans 15 lysosomal cathepsins (CTS) act as important physiological …

Genome-wide identification and in-silico analysis of papain-family cysteine protease encoding genes in Tetrahymena thermophila

Ş Duran, AFÜ Dede, YD Orhan, M Arslanyolu - European Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Tetrahymena thermophila is a promising host for recombinant protein production, but its
utilization in biotechnology is mostly limited due to the presence of intracellular and …

Cathepsin X deficiency alters the processing and localisation of cathepsin L and impairs cleavage of a nuclear cathepsin L substrate

B Xu, BM Anderson, SJ Mountford… - Biological …, 2024 - degruyter.com
Proteases function within sophisticated networks. Altering the activity of one protease can
have sweeping effects on other proteases, leading to changes in their activity, structure …

Cathepsin X is a conserved cell death protein involved in algal response to environmental stress

A Mizrachi, M Sadeh, S Ben-Dor, O Dym, C Ku… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Phytoplankton play a crucial role in global primary production and can form vast blooms in
aquatic ecosystems. Bloom demise and the rapid turnover of phytoplankton are suggested …