Figure 2. Analysis of the cleavage sites of pseudolysin in bovine elastin.
(a) Domain map of bovine elastin. Hydrophilic cross-linking domains are further divided into domains with lysine pairs separated by one or more proline residues (KP cross-linking domains) and domains with lysine pairs separated by alanine residues (KA cross-linking domains). Exon 36 encodes a hydrophilic C-terminus assigned differently22. (b) Cleavage sites of pseudolysin on bovine elastin (SwissProt accession number P04985-1). Exons are underlined by an arrow. Cleavage sites were deduced from the sequences of the peptides released by pseudolysin from bovine elastin as shown in Supplementary Table S1 online.