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. 2020 Jan 13;287(14):2979–2997. doi: 10.1111/febs.15190

Table 1.

Cleavage specificities reported for some of the most commonly used proteases in bottom‐up proteomics 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16. Xnp indicates any amino acid except proline.

Protease Cleavage site (↓) Optimal pH Max proteome coverage
AspN ↓D 8 78%
LysargiNase ↓K/R 7.5 87%
LysC K↓Xnp 8 79%
LysN ↓KXnp 8 78%
ArgC R↓Xnp 8 82%
GluC E↓ 8 86%
Chymotrypsin F/W/Y↓ 8 87%
Trypsin K/R↓Xnp 8–9 87%
Sap‐9 K/R↓Xnp 6–7 87%