Thermopsin

Thermopsin
Identifiers
EC number 3.4.23.42
CAS number 126125-05-1
Databases
IntEnz IntEnz view
BRENDA BRENDA entry
ExPASy NiceZyme view
KEGG KEGG entry
MetaCyc metabolic pathway
PRIAM profile
PDB structures RCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum

Thermopsin (EC 3.4.23.42) is an enzyme.[1] This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction

Similar in specificity to pepsin A preferring bulky hydrophobic amino acids in P1 and P1'

This enzyme is isolated from the thermophilic archeaon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius.

References

  1. Lin, X. and Tang, J. (1995). "Thermopsin". Methods Enzymol. 248: 156–168. doi:10.1016/0076-6879(95)48013-7. PMID 7674919.

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