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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 13.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Reprod Dev. 2012 Dec 4;80(2):80–101. doi: 10.1002/mrd.22130

Table 1.

Human seminal fluid proteases.

Protease class Protein name GI References
ADAM metalloprotease
ADAMTS-1 1264483 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
ADAM 7 296439449 (Pilch and Mann 2006)

Aminopeptidase
LAP3 48146373 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
Aminoacylproline aminopeptidase 68566146 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
Aminopeptidase N 143811362 (Pilch and Mann 2006; Utleg et al. 2003)

Asparaginyl peptidase
Legumain 56682964 (Pilch and Mann 2006)

Aspartate
Gastricin 129796 (Fung et al. 2004; Utleg et al. 2003)

Carboxypeptidase
Carboxypeptidase C 11055992 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
Carboxypeptidase D 25089854 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
Carboxypeptidase E 4503009 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
Carboxypeptidase M 53832021 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
Carboxypeptidase O 27436871 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
Carboxypeptidase Z 62388875 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
Glutamate carboxypeptidase-like protein 1 23396498 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
Pancreatic carboxypeptidase B1 54607080 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
Probable serine carboxypeptidase CPVL precursor 67476930 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
Prolylcarboxypeptidase 4826940 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
Glutamate carboxyeptidase (CPGL) 15620780 (Utleg et al. 2003)

Caspase
Caspase 14 6912286 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
Paracaspase 20455075 (Pilch and Mann 2006)

Papain-like cysteine
Cathepsin B 22538437 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
Cathepsin D 4503143 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
Cathepsin F 6042196 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
Cathepsin G 4503149 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
Cathepsin H 21264388 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
Cathepsin O 4557501 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
Cathepsin L1 22202619 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
Cathepsin Z 22538442 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
PPGB 56001072 (Pilch and Mann 2006)

Other cysteine
Calpain 1 12408656 (Pilch and Mann 2006)

Matrix metalloprotease
MMP2 11342666 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
MMP7 4505219 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
MMP14 317373419 (Pilch and Mann 2006)

Other Peptidase
Dipeptidase 3 193211608 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
Dipeptidyl-peptidase II 21617867 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
Dipeptidyl-peptidase III 20532389 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
Tripeptidyl-peptidase I 62896635 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
Tripeptidyl peptidase II 55661754 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
Peptidase A 23396498 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
Puromycin-sensitive aminopeptidase 51704228 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
Insulin protease 215274252 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
Dipeptidyl peptidase IV 1352311 (Pilch and Mann 2006; Utleg et al. 2003)
Neprilysin 128062 (Utleg et al. 2003)

Serine
KLK12 37182171 (Yousef and Diamandis 2001)
KLK14 156257445 (Yousef and Diamandis 2001)
KLK15 9957760 (Yousef and Diamandis 2001)
KLK4 64653115 (Yousef and Diamandis 2001)
KLK5 37183138 (Yousef and Diamandis 2001)
KLK8 37183190 (Yousef and Diamandis 2001)
KLK11 5803199 (Pilch and Mann 2006; Yousef and Diamandis 2001)
KLK2 5031829 (Pilch and Mann 2006; Yousef and Diamandis 2001)
Acrosin light chain 115502349 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
Brain-specific serine protease 4 11545839 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
C1r-like serine protease analog protein 182705204 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
complement component 1 62897163 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
complement component 2 74755562 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
complement factor B 67782358 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
complement factor I 317373341 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
matriptase 13124575 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
prostasin 4506153 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
serine protease 1 4506145 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
TMPRSS2 115502469 (Pilch and Mann 2006; Utleg et al. 2003)
PSA (KLK3) 4502173 (Fung et al. 2004; Pilch and Mann 2006; Utleg et al. 2003)

Thermolysin-like
Angiotensin I converting enzyme 4503273 (Pilch and Mann 2006)
Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 48525714 (Pilch and Mann 2006)

Ubiquitin processing
Deubiquitinating enzyme 14 1729927 (Pilch and Mann 2006)

Proteases identified in human seminal plasma or prostasomes, listed by protease class. Classes are based either on experimental data or computational prediction. GI: NCBI identifier.