Gingipain R

Gingipain R (EC 3.4.22.37, Arg-gingipain, gingipain-1, argingipain, Arg-gingivain-55 proteinase, Arg-gingivain-70 proteinase, Arg-gingivain-75 proteinase, arginine-specific cysteine protease, arginine-specific gingipain, arginine-specific gingivain, RGP-1, RGP) is an enzyme.[1][2][3] This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction:

Hydrolysis of proteins and small molecule substrates, with a preference for Arg in P1 (position 1)
Gingipain R
Identifiers
EC number3.4.22.37
CAS number159745-71-8
Databases
IntEnzIntEnz view
BRENDABRENDA entry
ExPASyNiceZyme view
KEGGKEGG entry
MetaCycmetabolic pathway
PRIAMprofile
PDB structuresRCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum

This enzyme is secreted endopeptidase from the bacterium Porphyromonas gingivalis.

References

  1. Chen Z, Potempa J, Polanowski A, Wikstrom M, Travis J (September 1992). "Purification and characterization of a 50-kDa cysteine proteinase (gingipain) from Porphyromonas gingivalis". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 267 (26): 18896–901. PMID 1527017.
  2. Kirszbaum L, Sotiropoulos C, Jackson C, Cleal S, Slakeski N, Reynolds EC (February 1995). "Complete nucleotide sequence of a gene prtR of Porphyromonas gingivalis W50 encoding a 132 kDa protein that contains an arginine-specific thiol endopeptidase domain and a haemagglutinin domain". Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 207 (1): 424–31. doi:10.1006/bbrc.1995.1205. PMID 7857299.
  3. Pavloff N, Potempa J, Pike RN, Prochazka V, Kiefer MC, Travis J, Barr PJ (January 1995). "Molecular cloning and structural characterization of the Arg-gingipain proteinase of Porphyromonas gingivalis. Biosynthesis as a proteinase-adhesin polyprotein". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 270 (3): 1007–10. doi:10.1074/jbc.270.3.1007. PMID 7836351.
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