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MMDB ID: 5867
PDB ID: 1PCI
Reference: Groves MR, Taylor MA, Scott M, Cummings NJ, Pickersgill RW, Jenkins JAThe prosequence of procaricain forms an alpha-helical domain that prevents access to the substrate-binding cleftStructure v4, p.1193-1203
BACKGROUND: Cysteine proteases are involved in a variety of cellular processes including cartilage degradation in arthritis, the progression of Alzheimer"s disease and cancer invasion: these enzymes are therefore of immense biological importance. Caricain is the most basic of the cysteine proteases found in the latex of Carica papaya....
Description: Procaricain.
Deposition: 1996/6/28 Click for more information 
Taxonomy: Carica papaya
Related Structure: VAST
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