CATH Classification

Domain Context

CATH Clusters

Superfamily Neutral Protease Domain 2
Functional Family Thermolysin

Enzyme Information

3.4.24.27
Thermolysin.
based on mapping to UniProt P00800
Preferential cleavage: Xaa-|-Leu > Xaa-|-Phe.
-!- A thermostable extracellular metalloendopeptidase containing four calcium ions. -!- Enzymes that may be species variants of thermolysin are reported from Micrococcus caseolyticus and Aspergillus oryzae. -!- Closely related but distinct enzymes are aeromonolysin, pseudolysin, bacillolysin, aureolysin and mycolysin. -!- Belongs to peptidase family M4. -!- Formerly EC 3.4.24.4.

UniProtKB Entries (1)

P00800
THER_BACTH
Bacillus thermoproteolyticus
Thermolysin

PDB Structure

PDB 2G4Z
External Links
Method X-RAY DIFFRACTION
Organism
Primary Citation
On the routine use of soft X-rays in macromolecular crystallography. Part IV. Efficient determination of anomalous substructures in biomacromolecules using longer X-ray wavelengths.
Mueller-Dieckmann, C., Panjikar, S., Schmidt, A., Mueller, S., Kuper, J., Geerlof, A., Wilmanns, M., Singh, R.K., Tucker, P.A., Weiss, M.S.
Acta Crystallogr.,Sect.D
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