Thermopsin
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'
| Thermopsin | |||||||||
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| 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 | ||||||||
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This enzyme is isolated from the thermophilic archeaon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius.
References
- Lin X, Tang J (1995). "Thermopsin". Methods in Enzymology. 248: 156–68. doi:10.1016/0076-6879(95)48013-7. PMID 7674919.
External links
- Thermopsin at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
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