CATH Classification

Domain Context

CATH Clusters

Superfamily Cysteine proteinases
Functional Family Cathepsin S

Enzyme Information

3.4.22.43
Cathepsin V.
based on mapping to UniProt O60911
The recombinant enzyme hydrolyzes proteins (serum albumin, collagen) and synthetic substrates (Z-Phe-Arg-NHMec > Z-Leu-Arg-NHMec > Z-Val- Arg-NHMec).
-!- Maximally active at pH 5.7 and unstable at neutral pH. -!- Compound E-64, leupeptin and chicken cystatin are inhibitors. -!- Belongs to peptidase family C1.

UniProtKB Entries (1)

O60911
CATL2_HUMAN
Homo sapiens
Cathepsin L2

PDB Structure

PDB 1FH0
External Links
Method X-RAY DIFFRACTION
Organism Saccharomyces
Primary Citation
Crystal structure of human cathepsin V.
Somoza, J.R., Zhan, H., Bowman, K.K., Yu, L., Mortara, K.D., Palmer, J.T., Clark, J.M., McGrath, M.E.
Biochemistry
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