Pycnoporopepsin
| Pycnoporopepsin | |||||||||
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ExPASy | NiceZyme view | ||||||||
| KEGG | KEGG entry | ||||||||
| MetaCyc | metabolic pathway | ||||||||
| PRIAM | profile | ||||||||
| PDB structures | RCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum | ||||||||
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Pycnoporopepsin (EC 3.4.23.30, proteinase Ia, Pycnoporus coccineus aspartic proteinase, Trametes acid proteinase) is an enzyme.[1][2][3] This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction
- Similar to pepsin A, but narrower, cleaving only three bonds in the B chain of insulin: Ala14-Leu, Tyr16-Leu, and Phe24-Phe
This enzyme is isolated from the
basidiomycete Pycnoporus sanguineus
.
References
External links
- Pycnoporopepsin at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
