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. 2020 Oct 22;7:578758. doi: 10.3389/fmolb.2020.578758

TABLE 2.

Efficiency of the hydrolysis of substrates Glp-Phe-Ala-pNA and Glp-Phe-Gln-pNA by cysteine peptidases of C1 family (n = 3, ±SE).

Enzyme Substrate kcat/KM, mM–1 min–1
Papain Glp-Phe-Gln-pNA 1,410 ± 150
Glp-Phe-Ala-pNA 640 ± 80
Ficin Glp-Phe-Gln-pNA 490 ± 50
Glp-Phe-Ala-pNA 180 ± 20
Cathepsin B human* Glp-Phe-Gln-pNA 44 ± 2
Glp-Phe-Ala-pNA 34 ± 2
Cathepsin L T. castaneum Glp-Phe-Gln-pNA 190 ± 24
Glp-Phe-Ala-pNA 33 ± 4
Cathepsin L human* Glp-Phe-Gln-pNA 140 ± 27
Cathepsin L human** Glp-Phe-Ala-pNA 33 ± 4

*Recombinant preparation. **From Semashko et al. (2014).