Evidence for a two-state transition in papain that may have no close analogue in ficin. Differences in the disposition of cationic sites and hydrophobic binding areas in the active centres of papain and ficin.

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• Reactivities of neutral and cationic forms of 2,2'-dipyridyl disulphide towards thiolate anions. Detection of differences between the active centres of actinidin, papain and ficin by a three-protonic-state reactivity probe.
  nork: Brocklehurst, K, et al.
  Argitaratua: (1979)
• Evidence for a close similarity in the catalytic sites of papain and ficin in near-neutral media despite differences in acidic and alkaline media. Kinetics of the reactions of papain and ficin with chloroacetate.
  nork: Brocklehurst, K, et al.
  Argitaratua: (1982)
• Evidence that binding to the S(2)-subsite of papain may be coupled with catalytically relevant structural change involving the cysteine-25–histidine-159 diad. Kinetics of the reaction of papain with a two-protonic-state reactivity probe containing a hydrophobic side chain
  nork: Brocklehurst, Keith, et al.
  Argitaratua: (1979)
• Preparation of fully active ficin from Ficus glabrata by covalent chromatography and characterization of its active centre by using 2,2'-depyridyl disulphide as a reactivity probe.
  nork: Malthouse, J P, et al.
  Argitaratua: (1976)
• A kinetic method for the study of solvent environments of thiol groups in proteins involving the use of a pair of isomeric reactivity probes and a differential solvent effect. Investigation of the active centre of ficin by using 2,2'- and 4,4'- dipyridyl disulphides as reactivity probes.
  nork: Malthouse, J P, et al.
  Argitaratua: (1980)