Enzymes implicated in disease processes attack one another instead of harming body proteins

Monday, August 13, 2012 - 09:01 in Biology & Nature

Researchers for the first time have shown that members of a family of enzymes known as cathepsins – which are implicated in many disease processes – may attack one another instead of the bodily proteins they normally degrade.

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