Talk:Protease
Can someone add some information what are proteases actually used for commercially? there are thousands of tons produced each year... Maximilianh
Protease is redirected here. Shouldn't it be the other way around? I used to do PhD studies on proteases... and the word "peptidase" exists in the name of a few proteases, but I think it is pretty oldfashioned. Protease was the word we used. / Habj 17:24, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
- Endopeptidase? JFW | T@lk 18:42, 11 August 2005 (UTC)Where is it found?? in the pancreas and the stomach.
- Not all proteases are endopeptidases. Endopeptidases are proteases that cleaves a protein chain in the middle of the sequence, while exoproteases "chews" from the end of the chain. /Habj 00:35, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
- doesn't 'peptidases' refer primarily to the activity of proteases in the stomach? There is an inactive pro-peptidase that is turned into the active peptidase by acid (HCL) in the stomach. I think peptidases don't only inactivate proteins, like a protease does, but splits proteins without specificity into aminoacids --Picobyte 19:19, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
maybe this link is usefull? Extracellular proteases and their inhibitors ingenetic diseases of the central nervous system [1]
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User:TimVickers produced the following image which I nominated for deletion last week because it wasn't being used anywhere. User:Deryck Chan was nice enough to look through my nominations at my request and thought that this one was worth saving, and might be useful on this article. ~ BigrTex 16:55, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
- Used this image elsewhere. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Twooars (talk • contribs) 03:57, 15 April 2007 (UTC).
Peptidases
There could easily be a whole artical devoted to peptidases, rather than have it just redirected to this page.
In a magazine I see an ad for a foot-care product has has protease as an ingredient; would "protease (subtilisin)" be effective for removing calluses? http://www.xenna.com/product_callex.html