OBSOLETE. Catalysis of the preferential cleavage of one bond in native collagen. Cleavage of the triple helix of collagen at about three-quarters of the length of the molecule from the N-terminus, at Gly775-Ile776 in the alpha-1(I) chain. Cleaves synthetic substrates and alpha-macroglobulins at bonds where P1' is a hydrophobic residue.
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GOC:curators
Comment
This term was made obsolete because it represents a gene product.