Calpains are non-lysosomal, Ca2+-dependent cysteine proteases, which are ubiquitously distributed across cell types and vertebrate species...
Keywords: calpain, Ca2+-dependent cysteine protease, calpastatin, insulin-like growth factor binding protein
01/2005 | Biological Chemistry, Walter de GruyterCalpains, the cytoplasmic Ca2+-activated regulatory proteases, have no simple and clearly definable cleavage site specificity, which is in sharp contrast to digestive (e.g., pancreatic) proteases...
Keywords: calpain, calpastatin, cleavage specificity, enzyme targeting
07/2005 | Biological Chemistry, Walter de GruyterCalpains are a large family of Ca2+-dependent cysteine proteases that are ubiquitously distributed across most cell types and vertebrate species...
Keywords: calpain, calpastatin, cyclin-dependent kinases, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, proteolysis, p19INK4d
03/2006 | Biological Chemistry, Walter de Gruyter