Abstract
An extracellular protease of Staphylococcus aureus, strain V8, previously shown to cleave specifically the peptide bonds on the carboxyl-terminal side of either aspartate or glutamate residues in phosphate buffer (pH 7.8) hydrolyzes only glutamoyl bonds in either ammonium bicarbonate (pH 7.8) or ammonium acetate (pH 4.0). Of all aspartoyl bonds tested, only the Asp-Gly linkage is cleaved at a detectable rate. The staphylococcal protease hydrolyzes all of the seventeen different glutamoyl bonds studied, although those involving hydrophobic aminoacid residues with bulky side chains are cleaved at a lower rate.
Keywords: digestion of proteins, aminoacid composition, end-group analysis
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