Cathepsin 7/Cathepsin 1: Products

Mouse Cathepsin 7, also known as Cathepsin 1, is one of the genes in a dense cluster on mouse chromosome 13 that encode placenta-specific cysteine proteases and related products.1 The gene cluster is absent from the human genome and its expression is restricted to the placenta only. Mouse Cathepsin 7 consists of 331 residues with a signal peptide (residues 1 - 17), a pro sequence (residues 18 - 111) and a mature form (residues 112 - 331).