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Chymopapain

Known as: Chymopapain [Chemical/Ingredient] 
A cysteine endopeptidase isolated from papaya latex. Preferential cleavage at glutamic and aspartic acid residues. EC 3.4.22.6.
National Institutes of Health

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2006
2006
Effects of mechanical wounding on Carica papaya cysteine endopeptidases accumulation and activity.
1997
1997
Immunomagnetic selection of CD34+peripheral blood stem cells for autografting in patients with breast cancer
Contamination of transplants with tumour cells may contribute to relapse after peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (PBSCT… 
1996
1996
Structure of chymopapain at 1.7 A resolution.
The X-ray structure of chymopapain, a cysteine proteinase isolated from the latex of the fruits of Carica papaya L., has been… 
Review
1996
Review
1996
Adolescent Disc Protrusions: A Long-term Follow-up of Surgery Compared to Chymopapain
Study Design This study compared chymopapain with primary surgery in the treatment of 60 radiologically proven adolescent lumbar… 
1990
1990
Selective cleavage of glycyl bonds by papaya proteinase IV
1990
1990
Interaction between chicken cystatin and the cysteine proteinases actinidin, chymopapain A, and ficin.
The cysteine proteinase inhibitor cystatin, from chicken egg white, bound with equimolar stoichiometry to the cysteine… 
Review
1990
Review
1990
Treatment of Sciatica A Comparative Survey of Complications of Surgical Treatment and Nucleolysis With Chymopapain
Chymopapain in the treatment of sciatica by chemonucleolysis has become widespread in the United States and Europe since the… 
1984
1984
Peripheral nerve injury by chymopapain injection.
Chymopapain injected into the intervertebral disc space (chemonucleolysis) has been used clinically in patients with disc disease… 
1979
1979
A purification and some properties of two proteases from papaya latex.
1972
1972
Isoelectric focusing of antibodies in polyacrylamide gels.
  • J. Eder
  • JIM - Journal of Immunological Methods
  • 1972
  • Corpus ID: 19776170
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