Type: | Domain | Name: | Cystatin domain |
Description: | Cystatins are a family of cysteine protease inhibitors belonging to MEROPS inhibitor family I25, clan IH [, , ]. They mainly inhibit peptidases belonging to peptidase families C1 (papain family) and C13 (legumain family). They occur mainly as single domain proteins. However, some extracellular proteins such as kininogen, His-rich glycoprotein and fetuin also contain these domains. | Short Name: | Cystatin_dom |