Protease

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A protease is a digestive enzyme. It breaks down long chains of proteins into shorter amino acids. Protease can be divided into 6 types:

  • serine proteases
  • threonine proteases
  • cysteine proteases
  • aspartate proteases
  • metallo proteases
  • glutamic acid proteases
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