Reactivities of the various protonic states in the reactions of papain and of L-cysteine with 2,2′- and with 4,4′- dipyridyl disulphide: evidence for nucleophilic reactivity in the un-ionized thiol group of the cysteine-25 residue of papain occasioned by its interaction with the histidine-159-asparagine-175 hydrogen-bonded system
- 1 June 1972
- journal article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Biochemical Journal
- Vol. 128 (2) , 471-474
- https://doi.org/10.1042/bj1280471
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