Cathepsin H, also known as CTSH, is a human gene. The Human Genome Organisation (HUGO is an organization involved in the Human Genome Project, a project about mapping the human genome The Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI website is run by The Jackson Laboratory. HomoloGene, a tool of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI is a system for automated detection of homologs (similarity attributable to descent The Entrez Global Query Cross-Database Search System is a powerful Federated search engine or Web portal that allows users to search many discrete Health sciences Ensembl is a joint scientific project between the European Bioinformatics Institute and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, which was launched in 1999 in response to the imminent UniProt is the uni versal prot ein resource a central repository of Protein data created by combining Swiss-Prot, TrEMBL PubMed is a free search engine for accessing the MEDLINE database of citations and abstracts of biomedical research articles History See also History of genetics The existence of genes was first suggested by Gregor Mendel (1822-1884 who in the 1860s studied inheritance [1]
The protein encoded by this gene is a lysosomal cysteine proteinase important in the overall degradation of lysosomal proteins. It is composed of a dimer of disulfide-linked heavy and light chains, both produced from a single protein precursor. The encoded protein, which belongs to the peptidase C1 protein family, can act both as an aminopeptidase and as an endopeptidase. Increased expression of this gene has been correlated with malignant progression of prostate tumors. Two transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [1]
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Further reading
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- Nagai A, Terashima M, Harada T, et al. (2003). "Cathepsin B and H activities and cystatin C concentrations in cerebrospinal fluid from patients with leptomeningeal metastasis. ". Clin. Chim. Acta 329 (1-2): 53–60. PMID 12589965.
- Han SR, Momeni A, Strach K, et al. (2004). "Enzymatically modified LDL induces cathepsin H in human monocytes: potential relevance in early atherogenesis. ". Arterioscler. Thromb. Vasc. Biol. 23 (4): 661–7. doi:10.1161/01.ATV.0000063614.21233.BF. A digital object identifier ( DOI) is a permanent identifier given to an Electronic document. PMID 12615673.
- Dodt J, Reichwein J (2004). "Human cathepsin H: deletion of the mini-chain switches substrate specificity from aminopeptidase to endopeptidase. ". Biol. Chem. 384 (9): 1327–32. PMID 14515996.
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