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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 9.
Published in final edited form as: Sci China Life Sci. 2016 Jul 19;59(8):777–791. doi: 10.1007/s11427-016-5090-x

Table 1.

Digestive enzymes in lysosomes

Name pH optimum Related disease Reference
beta-Galactosidase-1/GLB1 3.5 GM1-gangliosidosis & Morquio B syndrome (Zhang et al., 2000)
beta-Glucuronidase/GUSB 3.5 mucopolysaccharidosis type VII (Shipley et al., 1993)
alpha-L-iduronidase/IDUA 3.5 mucopolysaccharidosis type I (Scott et al., 1995)
Napsin A 3.5 (Aguilera et al., 2003)
Cathepsin D 3.5 (Barrett, 1977)
Cathepsin X/Z/P 3.5 (Nägler et al., 1999)
Chitobiase/CTBS 3.5 (Cacan et al., 1996)
alpha-Galactosidase A/GLA (rhGLA) 4 Fabry (Ioannou et al., 1998)
a-N-acetylgalactosaminidase/NAGA 4 Schindler’s disease (Wang et al., 1990)
Heparanase 4 (Vlodavsky et al., 1999)
Human hyaluronidase 1/HYAL1 4 mucopolysaccharidosis type IX (Hofinger et al., 2008)
GM1-beta-galactosidase 4 gangliondosis (Norden and O’Brien, 1975)
β-Galactocerebrosidase 4 Krabbe (Martino et al., 2009)
Legumain/Asparaginyl endopeptidase 4 (Chen et al., 1997)
Galactosylceramidase/GALC 4.5 Krabbe’s Disease (Suzuki and Suzuki, 1970)
alpha-N-acetylglucosaminidase/NAGLU 4.5 Sanfilippo syndrome B (Schmidtchen et al., 1998)
alpha-L-fucosidase/FUCA1 4.5 fucosidosis (Tiberio et al., 1995)
Hexosaminidase A/HEXA 4.5 Tay-Sachs disease (Mahuran et al., 1988)
Human hyaluronidase 4/HYAL4 4.5 (Kaneiwa et al., 2012)
alpha-Glucosidase/GAA 4.5 Pompe’s disease (Wan et al., 2008)
sialidase 4.5 Sialidosis (Jung et al., 1989)
Cathepsin S 4.5 (Kirschke et al., 1989)
Arylsulfatase A/ARSA 4.5 metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) (Lukatela et al., 1998)
Sphingomyelinase 5 Niemann Pick (Mühle et al., 2013)
Iduronate 2-sulfatase 5 mucopolysaccharidosis II (Wilson et al., 1990)
Glucosamine (N-acetyl)-6-sulfatase 5 mucopolysaccharidosis type IIID (Robertson et al., 1992)
N-acetylgalactosamine-6-sulfatase 5 mucopolysaccharidosis type IVA (Rivera-Colón et al., 2012)
Hexosaminidase B/HEXB 5.5 Sandhoff disease (Korneluk et al., 1986)
Klotho 5.5 (Tohyama et al., 2004)
CathepsinA 5.5 (Jackman et al., 1990)
Cathepsin V 5.5 (Brömme et al., 1999)
Arylsulfatase G/ARSG 5.5 mucopolysaccharidosis (in mice) (Ferrante et al., 2002)
Sulfamidase 5.5 mucopolysaccharidosis type IIIA (Blanch et al., 1997)
Glucosylceramidase/GBA 6 Gaucher disease (Sorge et al., 1985)
Acid ceramidase 6 Farber (Bedia et al., 2010)
Chitotriosidase/CHIT1 6 (Aguilera et al., 2003)
Cathepsin B 6 (Krupa et al., 2002)
Cathepsin C 6 (McDonald et al., 1969)
Cathepsin L 6 (Mason et al., 1985)
Cathepsin O 6 (Mason et al., 1985)
Cathepsin H 6.5 (Barrett and Kirschke, 1980)
Cathepsin K 6.5 (Brömme et al., 1996)
Arylsulfatase B/ARSB 6.5 mucopolysaccharidosis Type VI (Wicker et al., 1991)
AMSH/STAMBP 7.2 (McCullough et al., 2004)
beta-Glucosidase/GBA3 5~7 (de GRAAF et al., 2001)
Cathepsin E 3~7 (Athauda et al., 1991)
Cathepsin F 5.5~6.5 (Wang et al., 1998)
Lysosomal acid lipase 4 Wolman disease (Dairaku et al., 2014)