Pronase

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Pronase is a commercially available mixture of proteases [ citation needed ] isolated from the extracellular fluid of Streptomyces griseus . Activity extends to both denatured and native proteins leading to complete or nearly complete digestion into individual amino acids.

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One site that it cleaves at is the inactivation gate of Na+ voltage gated ion channels in neurons.

Pronase is under investigation as a way to improve image quality in gastroscopy by thinning the mucus in advance. [1]

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