Fig. 8.
Mechanism for spontaneous cleavage of peptide chains at serine residues. The peptide chain undergoes rearrangement via N, O-acyl shift involving the HO-side-chain. Hydrolysis of the resulting ester results in truncation (Lyons et al. 2011)
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