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Tobacco etch virus protease: mechanism of autolysis and rational design of stable mutants with wild-type catalytic proficiency.
Protein engineering - 1 Dec 2001
Kapust R B, Tözsér J, Fox J D, Anderson D E, Cherry S, Copeland T D, Waugh D S
Abstract excerpt
Because of its stringent sequence specificity, the catalytic domain of the nuclear inclusion protease from tobacco etch virus (TEV) is a useful reagent for cleaving genetically engineered fusion proteins. However, a serious drawback of TEV protease is that it readily cleaves itself at a specific site to generate a truncated enzyme with greatly diminished activity. The rate of autoinactivation is proportional to...
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