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V-cath endopeptidase

class of enzymes

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 26, 2023
Entity authorityQ12856800 ↗
Source-derived summary

V-cath endopeptidase (EC 3.4.22.50, AcNPV protease, BmNPV protease, NPV protease, baculovirus cathepsin, nucleopolyhedrosis virus protease, viral cathepsin) is an enzyme. This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction

Endopeptidase of broad specificity, hydrolyzing substrates of both cathepsin L and cathepsin B

This enzyme belongs to the peptidase family C1.

Editorial summary

“V-cath endopeptidase” enters the record as class of enzymes. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what V-cath, endopeptidase and class can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 48-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around V-cath, endopeptidase and class.
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“V-cath endopeptidase” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, V-cath, endopeptidase and class provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 26, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q12856800. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “V-cath endopeptidase” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.