After APC/C-mediated degradation of PTTG1 (securin), ESPL1 (separin i.e. separase) is rapidly autocatalytically cleaved after arginine residues at positions 1506 and 1535. The N-terminal and C-terminal fragments remain bound to each other after cleavage. It has not been examined what happens with the short middle fragment of ESPL1, so it is annotated as a part of the autocleaved ESPL1 complex. The autocatalytic cleavage of ESPL1 is not a prerequisite for the subsequent cleavage of the cohesin subunit RAD21 (Waizenegger et al. 2002).
Peters, JM, Waizenegger, I, Wernic, D, Giménez-Abián, JF
cysteine-type peptidase activity of ESPL1 [cytosol]
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