Talk:Aminopeptidase

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The text in this stub is plagiarized from "Aminopeptidases: structure and function," by Allen Taylor, in an article from The FASEB Journal 7.2 (1993), pages 290-298. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.78.207.132 (talk) 18:28, 18 June 2020 (UTC)


 * I've added quotations around the sentences taken from the abstract verbatim. They did have the reference citations behind them, but that is certainly no excuse for this to have happened. I am not knowledgeable enough about this subject to adequately summarize, so I have left a request for assessment with WIkiProject Science for the article as a whole, given the new content just added today, and informed them of the issue needing addressed. OIM20 (talk) 13:27, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Also not really qualified but I didn't read this talk page so I ended up summarizing it a bit. Hopefully there aren't any errors: I mostly just rephrased what was there. Unless there are more plagiarized parts that weren't quoted the problem should be fixed. In the future you can probably use the \{\{copyvio}} (don't keep the backslashes) template, or just delete the quoted text. Using the template usually someone responds pretty quickly. Mrfoogles (talk) 04:18, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Scope is so narrow as to make this stub incorrect
"Aminopeptidase" is an extraordinarily broad class of enzymes: "Any of several enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of the peptide bond of the terminal amino acid at the amino end of a polypeptide or protein", according to Wiktionary. These are ubiquitous in the environment ( as a trivial example) and surely are not all zinc-dependent.

I'm not enough of a biochemist to even rewrite the stub, and I don't mean to speak ill of the good person who wrote it, but I think definition this stub presents is so narrow as to be basically wrong.

Asteen (talk) 20:59, 6 July 2008 (UTC)