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JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 151, Issue 1, Pages 13-25Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jb/mvr129
Keywords
catalytic mechanism; glutamic peptidase; pepstatin; serine-carboxyl peptidase; structure; substrate specificity
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan
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Peptidases or proteinases are now classified into seven families based on the nature of the catalytic residues [MEROPS-the peptidase database (http://merops.sanger.ac.uk/)]. They are aspartic- (first described in 1993), cysteine- (1993), serine- (1993) metallo- (1993), threonine- (1997), glutamic- (2004) and asparagine-peptidase (2010). By using an S-PI (pepstatin Ac) as a probe, a new subfamily of serine peptidase, serine-carboxyl peptidase (sedolisin) was discovered in 2001. In addition, the sixth family of peptidase, glutamic peptidase (eqolisin) was also discovered in 2004. The former peptidase is widely distributed in nature from archea to mammals, including humans. One of these enzymes is related to a human fatal hereditable disease, Batten disease. In contrast, the distribution of the latter peptidases is limited, with most of them found in human or plant pathogenic fungi. One such enzyme was isolated from a fungal infection in an HIV-infected patient. In this review, the background of the findings, and crystal structures, catalytic mechanisms, substrates specificities and distribution of the new peptidase families are described.
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