“…Cathepsin B from hepatopancreas (a digestive gland) of carp (Cyprinus carpio) has been found to have a temperature maximum of 45 1C (pH 6) (Aranishi, Hara, Ossatomi, & Ishihara, 1997). Cathepsin B from mackerel (Scomber australasicus, Scomber japonicus) muscle showed temperature optimum at 55 1C (pH 6.5) (Jiang, Lee, & Chen, 1994;Jiang, Lee, Tsao, & Lee, 1997) and from Mujil auratus muscle at 45 1C (pH 6.0) (Bonete Manjon, Llorca, & Iborra, 1984b). In fillets of Pacific whiting (Merluccius productus), cathepsin B had maximum activity between 20 and 37 1C (An, Weerasinghe, Seymour, & Morrissey, 1994).…”