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Polyporopepsin

Polyporopepsin, also called Polyporus aspartic proteinase, Irpex lacteus aspartic proteinase or Irpex lacteus carboxyl proteinase B, is an enzyme found in the fungus Irpex lacteus. It catalyses the following chemical reaction:

Milk clotting activity, broad specificity, but fails to cleave Leu<sup>15</sup>-Tyr or Tyr<sup>16</sup>-Leu of insulin B chain.

Irpex lacteus is a basidiomycete also known as Polyporus tulipiferae.

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