Crystal structure of the novel aspartic proteinase zymogen proplasmepsin II from plasmodium falciparum.
Bernstein, N.K., Cherney, M.M., Loetscher, H., Ridley, R.G., James, M.N.(1999) Nat Struct Biol 6: 32-37
- PubMed: 9886289 
- DOI: 10.1038/4905
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
1PFZ - PubMed Abstract: 
Proplasmepsin II is the zymogen of plasmepsin II, an aspartic proteinase used by Plasmodiumfalciparum to digest hemoglobin during the blood stage of malaria. A large shift between the N-domain and the central and C-domains of proplasmepsin II opens the active site cleft, preventing the formation of a functional aspartic proteinase active site ...