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Protease enzyme is the general name given to enzymes that break proteins into amino acids. However, within that group, there are specific enzymes for specific proteins. An enzyme is considered a catalyst, a specific type of protein that speeds up reactions without being used up in the reaction itself.

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Enzymes for specific substrates have the name of the substrate in them and usually have -ase ending. Example: enzymes to break down fat are called lipases, for proteins, proteases. Pepsin is an old name for an enzyme that breaks down proteins in the stomach. It doesn't follow the same rule because it wasn't known then that there are so many of these enzymes.

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Enzymes are not meant to denature proteins, in contrast, there are proteins such as chaperone and chaperonin that are known to fold proteins properly.
Reducting agents such as DTT or betamercaptoehtanol can denature proteins while heating at 95 degree Celsius for 5 min. SDS, urea, guanidium hydrochloride are strong protein denaturants. Denatured proteins are catalytically dead and can not perform any function.

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Proteases is the general term for enzymes that act on proteins.

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Protease enzymes breakdown proteins. Enzymes are also proteins

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Trypsin

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Pespin

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Proteases

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