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Bovine enterokinase (enteropeptidase) is a serine protease and functions as the physiological activator of trypsinogen. The enzyme has a heavy chain (115 kD) covalently linked to a light or catalytic subunit (35 kD). The amino acid composition showed that the light chain has nine half-cystine residues (four as intramolecular disulfides) and that one half-cystine was in a disulfide link between the light and heavy subunits. The amino-terminal 27 residues of the S-vinylpyridyl derivative of the light chain were determined by gas-phase Edman degradation. The sequence has homologies with other serine proteases containing one or two chains. The homologies suggest that the catalytic subunit has the same three-dimensional structure and, therefore, the same mechanism of enzymatic action as pancreatic chymotrypsin, trypsin, and elastase. The presence of the conserved amino-terminal activation peptide sequence (IVGG) shows that enterokinase must have a zymogen precursor and that the two-chain enzyme arises from limited proteolysis during posttranslational processing.
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Light, A., Janska, H. The amino-terminal sequence of the catalytic subunit of bovine enterokinase. J Protein Chem 10, 475–480 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01025475
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