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A 520 amino acid middle domain is possibly similar to the Sea Urchin arylsulfatase precursor, as determined by statistical processing of jumbled sequences. Results from comparative analyses of epitope and nucleotide similarities to PK1E endoneuraminidase indicate that a 200 amino acid C-terminal domain, unique to K1F Endo-N, could be responsible for stabilizing K1F Endo-N to proteolysis. In addition to sequence analysis, biochemical characterization indicates that the molecule is a dimer of identical 102 kDa polypeptide chains. Immunoblot analysis of SDS-PAGE fractionated Endo-N indicates that no post-transcriptional modifications are necessary for expression of native protein. A method for detecting molecular weight variants, which could be indicative of in vivo protein folding intermediates as found in the P22 tail spike protein, is presented. Future research with Endo-N depends on developing an expression vector. 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