Commentary Open Access
Volume 2 | Issue 4 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.33696/immunology.2.038
Are Cysteine-lipases Involved in the Immune System?
Qi Wu1, Manfred T. Reetz2,3,*
- 1Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, 310027 Hangzhou, P. R. China
- 2Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, 45470 Muelheim, Germany
- 3Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 32 West 7th Avenue, 300308 Tianjin, P. R. China
Corresponding Author
Manfred T. Reetz, reetz@mpi-muelheim.mpg.de
Received Date: May 05, 2020
Accepted Date: June 02, 2020
Wu Q, Reetz MT. Are Cysteine-lipases Involved in the Immune System? J Cell Immunol. 2020; 2(4): 175-177.
Copyright: © 2020 Wu Q, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Keywords
Lipases, Cysteine-lipases, Catalytic triad, Enzyme activity, Digestive tract, Immunological response
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