<chemical> A homologous group of endogenous cysteine proteinase inhibitors. Four distinct families are recognised within the cystatin superfamily: cystatin b or stefins; cystatin c or post-gamma-globulin; egg-white or chicken cystatin; and kininogen cystatin. The cystatins inhibit most cysteine proteinases of the papain type, and other peptid...
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A group of natural cysteine-protease inhibitors (approximately 13 kD) widely distributed both intra- and extra-cellularly. See stefin.
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