金山科研平台，产品价格货期咨询微信：jinshanbio Molecule Information: Cathepsin 7/Cathepsin 1 Aliases: Cathepsin 1; CTS1; CTS7; Epcs24; Epcs71 Entrez Gene IDs: 56092 (Mouse); 290970 (Rat) Background: Cathepsin 7/Cathepsin 1 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).