Re: Protein Digest: Enzyme Source

David A. Schooley (schooley@unr.edu)
Tue, 2 Mar 1999 12:46:23 -0800

Beth-
Furin is a homologue of Kex2, isolated earlier from yeast. It may
be easier to get your hands on. Same substrate specificity. Try
Linscott's Directory (hard copy- their on-line site doesn't seem to have
the enzyme section constructed yet).
>Does anyone know of a commercial or academic source of the enzyme furin?
>Are there any other enzymes which have a preference for dibasic residues,
>preferrably KR?
>

David

David A. Schooley
Dept. of Biochemistry/330
Univ. of Nevada
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