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Roles of Tyr13 and Phe219 in the unique substrate specificity of pepsin B.
Biochemistry - 5 Dec 2006
Kageyama Takashi
Abstract excerpt
Pepsin B is known to be distributed throughout mammalia, including carnivores. In this study, the proteolytic specificity of canine pepsin B was clarified with 2 protein substrates and 37 synthetic octapeptides and compared with that of human pepsin A. Pepsin B efficiently hydrolyzed gelatin but very poorly hydrolized hemoglobin. It was active against only a group of octapeptides with Gly at P2, such as KPAGF/LRL...
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