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Proteins are chains of amino acids, and these chains have an Nitrogen-terminus and a Carbon-terminus. The Nitrogen-terminus is the end of the protein that has a nitrogen, which is available for bonding with a free carbon of another amino acid. The carbon-terminus is the end of the protein that has a carbon which is available to bond with a free nitrogen of another amino acid.

Trypsin can cleave a bond between argininel and another amino acid or lysine and another amino acid. The reason why the N-terminus and C-terminus is important is because enzymes either N-terminus specific or C-terminus specific. Trypsin, for example will cleave bonds between arginin or lysine and the amino acid it is bonded closes to the C-terminus side (see below).

(N-terminus) Alanine--Lysine--Glycine (C-terminus) ----> Alanine--Lysine + Glycine

In this example trypsin hydrolyzed the bond between lysine and glycine, which was the bond on the C-terminus end. It would not effect the bond with alanine because it is on the N-terminus side.

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What has the author Joseph John Oliver Smyth written?

Joseph John Oliver Smyth has written: 'The synthesis and activity of new specific substrates and inhibitors of trypsin and chymotrypsin'


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What is the enzyme for a protein substrate?

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What is the endopeptidase substrate?

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How is it possible that trypsin can catalyse many reactions?

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