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While promoting diseases like cancer, these enzymes also cannibalize each other

GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Like motley bandits, certain enzymes implicated in cancer and other diseases also annihilate each other. A new study reveals details of their mutual foils in the hopes that these behaviors can be leveraged to fight the enzymes’ disease potential. The bandits are cathepsins, enzymes that normally dispose of unneeded protein in...