ficain
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Ficain also known as ficin, debricin, or higueroxyl delabarre () is a proteolytic enzyme extracted from the latex sap from the stems, leaves, and unripe fruit of the American wild fig tree Ficus insipida.
Key facts
- Enzyme.Name
- Ficain
- Enzyme.EC_number
- 3.4.22.3
- Enzyme.CAS_number
- 9001-33-6
- Enzyme.image
- 4YYQ.pdb.png
- Enzyme.caption
- Crystallographic structure of ficain from Ficus carica, rainbow colored, N-terminus blue, C-terminus red.
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Research
235 papers- Enzyme treatment of red blood cells: use of ficin and papain.Immunohematology · 2022
- Cationic heterooligopeptides by ficain-catalyzed co-oligomerization of lysine and methionine ethylesters.Journal of peptide science : an official publication of the European Peptide Society · 2014
- Exogenous proteases for meat tenderization.Critical reviews in food science and nutrition · 2014
- Milk-clotting activity of cucumisin, a plant serine protease from melon fruit.Applied biochemistry and biotechnology · 1996
- ZZAP treatment of red blood cells.Immunohematology · 2019
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Wikidata facts
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- EC enzyme number
- 3.4.22.3
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- Nomenclature
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Ficain also known as ficin, debricin, or higueroxyl delabarre () is a proteolytic enzyme extracted from the latex sap from the stems, leaves, and unripe fruit of the American wild fig tree Ficus insipida.
Ficain was originally called ficin, and ficin was originally a mixture of closely related cysteine endopeptidases produced from any species of the genus Ficus, before the terminology was restricted to a specific cysteine endopeptidase enzyme from a specific species.