Edman degradation of crotalase and its tryptic and CNBr fragments yielded an N-terminal amino acid sequence, Val- Ile-Gly-Gly-Asp-Glu-Cys-AsN-Ile-AsN-Glu-His-Arg-Phe-Leu-Val- Ala-Leu-Tyr-Asp-Tyr-Trp-Xxx-GlN-Xxx-Phe-rLeu-, and internal sequences, -Leu-Ile-Arg-Leu-AsN-Lys-Pro-Val-Ser-Tyr-Ser-Glu- His-Ile-Ala-Pro-Leu-Ser-Leu-Pro-Ser-Ser-Pro-Pro-Ile-Val-Gly- Ser-Val-Cys-Arg-Ala-Met-Gly-Trp-Gly-GIN-Thr-Thr-Ser-Pro-GIN- Glu-Thr-Leu-Pro-Asp-Val-Pro-His-Cys-Ala-AsN-Ile-AsN-Leu-Leu- Asp-Tyr-Glu-Val-Cys- and -Ser-Val-GIN-Phe-Asp-Lys-Glu-GIN- GIN-Arg-. The longer internal sequence aligns homologously with positions 105-168 of chymotrypsinogen with gaps, each 5 residues long, following Pro 128 and GIN 143. No homologous alignment has been found for the shorter internal sequence. These findings led to experiments which demonstrated that crotalase has specific enzymatic properties resembling kallikrein.
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