Studies from Tokushima Bunri University add new findings in the area of protease.(Report)

Biotech Week | July 29, 2009 | Copyright

"it is well known that the collagenolytic cathepsins play an important role in the degradation of bone matrix. Therefore. the purpose of this study was to clarify the prevention effect of bone resorption by milk components. Using double-layer reverse zymography we found a 20 kDa protein in milk which inhibited cysteine proteases," scientists in Tokushima, Japan report (see also Protease).

"This inhibitory protein was identified as beta-lactoglobulin B. The inhibitory activity of P-lactoglobulin B against cathepsin K was stronger than that of beta-lactoglobulin A. ...

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