... cystatin C is the mostdiscriminating residue for binding to cathepsins B, H,L, S [24]. No L9K mutants of cystatin C have beenprepared yet to study the effect of incorporating theCystatin F in ... activation of cystatin F wehave studied the in vitro kinetics of the interactionbetween cystatin F and several cathepsins, as wellas their intracellular localization in promonocyteU937 cells, using ... the aminopeptidasecathepsin H (Ki¼ 30 nm ). In comparison with othercystatins, cystatin F is a rather slow binding inhibitor of the cathepsins, characterized by kassvalues in therange of...