The active groups of pepsin
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Herriott, Roger M.
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Article
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1956
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Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
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English
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Pepsin is of interest for many reasons, but attention is directed here to it as representing those enzymes that probably contain no prosthetic (nonamino acid) groups. Its proteolytic activity must, therefore, be attributed to the arrangement of its amino acids in the peptide chain and/or to the fold