Talk:Protease
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Description
[edit]Can someone add "protease segments protenes"? The description is a little klunky. There is no mention of how this word is pronounced. Is it "pro-teez" or "pro-tee-aze"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.135.66.222 (talk) 16:18, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
- "ase" means "breaker of." So it is protee-ase. Rumiton (talk) 14:08, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
Tool use
[edit]Can someone add some information what are proteases actually used for commercially? there are thousands of tons produced each year... Maximilianh
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 157.136.241.109 (talk) 10:08, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
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]
Possible image
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/HIV_protesase_with_ritonavir.png/220px-HIV_protesase_with_ritonavir.png)
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
[edit]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
Minor 2013 overhaul
[edit]I've made some changes that hopefully have improved the article:
- Finally cleared up orphan references from 2009!
- I've integrated most into the text where it's obvious
- The article is still a little sparse on references though
- Added leader image (though not necessarily the most appropriate)
- Added comparison of mechanisms and image (pretty proud of that one)
- Moved degradation section into mechanism and functions header
- Added evolutionary classification (MEROPS)
- Separated occurrence in to sections by kingdom
- Linked to main articles in inhibitors and uses
- Generally expanded a few sections
- Added see also links
- Do we need a history section?
Hopeully these justify increasing the article's quality class from Start to C. What do you think? T. Shafee (Evo&Evo) (talk) 02:54, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
fungi?
[edit]"Proteases can be found in animals, plants, bacteria, archea and viruses." Asmrulz (talk) 20:47, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
Assessment comment
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Last edited at 00:30, 11 June 2007 (UTC). Substituted at 03:28, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
Pronunciation
[edit]Could someone who knows how the IPA template works please add the pronunciation to the intro paragraph? Thanks. Psu256 (talk) 15:16, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
Circular defintion?
[edit]The Trypsin Wikipedia page starts "Trypsin (EC 3.4.21.4) is a serine protease..." and this Protease Wikipedia page begins "A protease (also called a peptidase or proteinase) is a Trypsin..."
I am not experienced enough in this field yet to know how to address this edit, but maybe one of you out there can help make this non-circular between the two pages! Cheers.
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