The protease papain from papaya is used in the biotech industry to cleave antibodies into useful fragments. The crystal structure of the papain active site (carbons are in white) is shown below with a covalently bound peptide analogue (carbons in black). When chromogenic esters are used as substrates, papain displays burst phase kinetics.
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