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Aspartic proteases (APs) are one of the four super families of proteolysis enzymes and are widely found in animals, plants, yeast, microorganisms and viruses, which are involved in many biological processes, such as senescence, stress responses, programmed cell death, and reproduction. They are a relatively simple class of enzymes that usually contain two aspartic acid residues within the conserved Asp-Thr/Ser-Gly motifs and are crucial for catalytic activity. Proteases play a fundamental role in protein degradation during cell homeostasis maintenance and restructuring.