A high-order structure of plant storage proprotein allows its second conversion by an asparagine-specific cysteine protease, a novel proteolytic enzyme.

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During seed embryogenesis, glycinin, the 11-S seed storage protein found in soybeans, undergoes post-translational proteolytic processing, in which a proprotein molecule is cleaved into an acidic and a basic subunit by a one-point cleavage that occurs at the carboxyl side of the asparaginyl residue located at the junction of the subunits. To elucidate the mechanism of this very limited proteolysis, we purified...

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