... relationship between N-acetylation and the chymotrypsin-like activity of 20S proteasome. In the present s tudy, we detec ted the N-acetylation of OsRpt6 in the rice RP complex by MS. Other N-terminal modifica-tions ... masses of the RP subunits were between32 000 and 110 000 D a. Identification of the rice RP subunit by ESI-Q-TOFmass spectrometryPrior to identification of the RP subunits by ESI-Q-TOFMS, we ... the N-terminus of 80–90% of proteins in the cell is acetylated. Recently, Kimura et al.([32]; Kimura, Y. , Yokohama City University, KiharaInstitute for Biological Research/Graduate School of Integrated...