Human Cathepsin V (CTSV) ELISA Kit

Cathepsin V (CTSV) is a lysosomal cysteine protease of the papain-like cathepsin family, closely related to Cathepsin L but with much more restricted tissue expression, concentrated in the thymus and testis where it supports invariant chain processing and MHC class II peptide loading during T-cell positive selection. Quantitative measurement of CTSV protein is widely used by laboratories working on tumor invasion and metastasis, atherosclerotic plaque biology, abdominal aortic aneurysm progression, and thymic immunology to connect transcript-level findings with actual protease abundance in patient or model-system samples. This Assay Genie kit is configured for 96 assays and is validated for human tissue homogenates and cell lysates, giving researchers a plate-based workflow for biomarker work in cell and tissue lysate preparations. The reagents are supplied as a complete research-use-only kit intended for laboratory quantification of human Cathepsin V in non-clinical research programs, including studies on cancer cell invasion, protease-substrate profiling, and immune cell development.