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Deletion of the carboxy terminal part of stefin B does not have a major effect for binding to papain.
Biomedica biochimica acta - 1 Jan 1991
Jerala R, Kroon-Zitko L, Kopitar M, Popovic T, Turk V
Abstract excerpt
Determination of crystal structures of chicken cystatin and human stefin B complexed with papain revealed a novel model of protease inhibition and also structural differences between two cysteine proteinase inhibitor (CPI) families. According to the 3D alignment, stefins have an extension of 9 amino acids on their carboxy terminus in comparison with cystatins. The extension was not expected to make a major...
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