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The traditional mechanism for the peptide hydrolysis reaction in aspartic proteases. The forward direction of this reaction occurs from left to right, a convention that is maintained throughout this article. The straight arrows represent the overriding direction from reactant (left) to products (right), over the transition state (middle).
