IUBMB Enzyme Nomenclature

EC 3.4.21.12

Accepted name: α-lytic endopeptidase

Reaction: Preferential cleavage: Ala, Val in bacterial cell walls, elastin and other proteins

Other names: myxobacter α-lytic proteinase; α-lytic proteinase; α-lytic protease; Mycobacterium sorangium α-lytic proteinase; Myxobacter 495 α-lytic proteinase; α-lytic proteinase; Myxobacter α-lytic proteinase; Mycobacterium sorangium α-lytic proteinase

Comments: From the myxobacterium Lysobacter enzymogenes. In peptidase family S1 (trypsin family)

Links to other databases: BRENDA, EXPASY, KEGG, MEROPS, Metacyc, PDB, CAS registry number: 37288-76-9

References

1. Olson, M.O.J., Nagabushan, N., Dzwiniel, M., Smillie, L.B. and Whitaker, D.R. Primary structure of α-lytic protease: a bacterial homologue of the pancreatic serine proteases. Nature 228 (1970) 438-442. [PMID: 5482494]

2. Polgár, L. Structure and function of serine proteases. In New Comprehensive Biochemistry Vol. 16, Hydrolytic Enzymes (Neuberger, A. and Brocklehurst, K. eds), pp. 159-200 (1987) Elsevier, Amsterdam

3. Epstein, D.M. and Wensink, P.C. The α-lytic protease gene of Lysobacter enzymogenes. The nucleotide sequence predicts a large prepro-peptide with homology to pro-peptides of other chymotrypsin-like enzymes. J. Biol. Chem. 263 (1988) 16586-16590. [PMID: 3053694]

4. Bone, R., Frank, D., Kettner, C.A. and Agard, D.A. Structural analysis of specificity: α-lytic protease complexes with analogues of reaction intermediates. Biochemistry 28 (1989) 7600-7609. [PMID: 2611204]

[EC 3.4.21.12 created 1972]


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