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Phytepsin (EC 3.4.23.40 ) is an enzyme .[1] [2] [3] [4] This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction
Prefers hydrophobic residues Phe, Val, Ile, Leu, and Ala at P1 and P1', but also cleaves -Phe-Asp- and -Asp-Asp- bonds in 2S albumin from plant seeds
This enzyme is present in barley grain and other plants. It is an aspartic protease with a plant-specific insert .
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^ Kervinen J, Sarkkinen P, Kalkkinen N, Mikola L, Saarma M (March 1993). "Hydrolytic specificity of the barley grain aspartic proteinase". Phytochemistry . 32 (4): 799–803. doi :10.1016/0031-9422(93)85208-9 . PMID 7763475 .
^ Asakura T, Watanabe H, Abe K, Arai S (August 1995). "Rice aspartic proteinase, oryzasin, expressed during seed ripening and germination, has a gene organization distinct from those of animal and microbial aspartic proteinases" . European Journal of Biochemistry . 232 (1): 77–83. doi :10.1111/j.1432-1033.1995.tb20783.x . PMID 7556174 .
^ Kervinen J, Törmäkangas K, Runeberg-Roos P, Guruprasad K, Blundell T, Teeri TH (1995). "Structure and possible function of aspartic proteinases in barley and other plants". Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. 362 : 241–54. doi :10.1007/978-1-4615-1871-6_28 . ISBN 978-1-4613-5761-2 . PMID 8540324 .
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