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Handbook of Proteolytic Enzymes. Cysteine Peptidases. Edition No. 4

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  • September 2026
  • Elsevier Science and Technology
  • ID: 6249503

Handbook of Proteolytic Enzymes: Cysteine Peptidases, Fourth Edition?is an essential reference for biochemists, biotechnologists, and molecular biologists across academia and industry. It includes over 300 chapters on known cysteine peptidases, including their name, history, activity and specificity, structural chemistry, preparation, biological aspects, and distinguishing features, with color 2D and 3D structures of peptidases, extensive references, and links to PubMed and MEROPS databases.

Edited by world-renowned experts in the field, and with five volumes available for individual sale, this work provides detailed information on all known proteolytic enzymes researched to-date, with expanded coverage of metallopeptidases, cysteine peptidases, serine and threonine peptidases, aspartic and glutamic peptidases, and inhibitors of proteolytic enzymes.

Table of Contents

New Chapters
1. Pseudotzain
2. Falcipain-2
3. Falcipain-3
4. Rhodesain
5. OTULIN Peptidase
6. Ubiquitinyl Hydrolase-BAP1
7. Butelase 1
8. CED-3 Peptidase
9. Caspase-11
10. Metacaspase-9
11. Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Papain-Like Peptidase
12. Ubiquitin-Specific Peptidase 9X
13. Ubiquitin-Specific Peptidase 11
14. Ubiquitin-Specific Peptidase 12
15. Ubiquitin-Specific Peptidase 18
16. Ubiquitin-Specific Peptidase 19
17. Ubiquitin-Specific Peptidase 20
18. Ubiquitin-Specific Peptidase 21
19. Ubiquitin-Specific Peptidase 26
20. Ubiquitin-Specific Peptidase 28
21. Ubiquitin-Specific Peptidase 30
22. Ubiquitin-Specific Endopeptidase 39
23. MERS Coronavirus Picornain 3C-Like Peptidase
24. D-Alanyl-Glycyl Peptidase
25. Autophagin-1
26. DJ-1 Putative Peptidase

Major Revisions
27. Papain
28. Stem Bromelain
29. Actinidin
30. Cathepsin B
31. Cathepsin K
32. Cathepsin L
33. Cathepsin S
34. Cathepsin X
35. Falcipain-2
36. Falcipain-3
37. Dipeptidyl-Peptidase I
38. Peptidase 1 (Mite)
39. Cruzipain
40. Calpain-1
41. Calpain-2
42. Calpain-3
43. Streptopain
44. Ubiquitinyl Hydrolase-L1
45. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Papain-Like Peptidase
46. Ubiquitin-Specific Peptidase 4
47. Ubiquitin-Specific Peptidase 7
48. Ubiquitin-Specific Peptidase 15
49. Legumain (Plant Beta Form)
50. Legumain, Animal-Type
51. Caspase-1
52. Caspase-3
53. Caspase-7
54. Caspase-8
55. Caspase-9
56. Gingipain K
57. Separase (Homo sapiens-Type)
58. Sindbis Virus-Type nsP2 Peptidase
59. Enterovirus Picornain 2A
60. Tobacco Etch Virus NIa Peptidase
61. SARS Coronavirus Picornain 3C-Like Peptidase
62. Calicivirin

Authors

Neil D. Rawlings Senior Scientist, Proteins Department, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK. Currently Dr. Neil Rawlings is a Senior Scientist in the Proteins Department at the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK. Dr. Rawlings has been an active researcher at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute for over twenty years. He is extremely well known in the proteolytic enzyme community for his work curating the MEROPS database, an information resource covering peptidases and the proteins that inhibit them, which is used by expert researchers and students worldwide. Dr. Rawlings has published widely in such peer reviewed journals as Genome Research, BMC Bioinformatics, PloS ONE, Nucleic Acids Research, the Journal of Biological Chemistry, and Science.