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Pepsin homologues in bacteria

BACKGROUND: Peptidase family A1, to which pepsin belongs, had been assumed to be restricted to eukaryotes. The tertiary structure of pepsin shows two lobes with similar folds and it has been suggested that the gene has arisen from an ancient duplication and fusion event. The only sequence similarity...

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Autores principales: Rawlings, Neil D, Bateman, Alex
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2761423/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19758436
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-10-437