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PAPAIN
Thiol protease from Carica papaya (pawpaw).
Thermostable and willact in the presence of denaturing agents. Although it will cleave a variety of peptide bonds there is greatest activity one residue towards the C terminus from a phenylalanine.
This entry appears with alow from the Vocabulary of Cell and Molecular Biology