Papain is an enzyme used for proteolysis, including limited Papain digestion of IgG.
It is a cysteine protease: a catalytic cysteine participates directly in peptide-bond hydrolysis. Limited digestion can cleave accessible regions while preserving folded domains, which is why carefully interpreted fragment patterns can reveal aspects of antibody architecture. [ref]

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