$VAR1 = undef;
Summary for peptidase A01.020: phytepsin
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| MEROPS Name | phytepsin |
| Other names | arctiumisin (Arctium minus), At1g11910 (Arabidopsis thaliana), AtPaspA1 (Arabidopsis thaliana), AtPaspA2 (Arabidopsis thaliana), AtPaspA3 (Arabidopsis thaliana), cardosin A (Cynara cardunculus), cardosin B (Cynara cardunculus), cardosin C (Cynara cardunculus), cardosin D (Cynara cardunculus), cenprosin Centauria calcitrapa, cirsin (Cirsium vulgare), CPA63 allergen (Cryptomeria japonica), cynarase (Cynara cardunculus), cyprosin, LeAspP, oryzasin, pra-1 g.p. (Arabidopsis thaliana), salpichroin (Salpichroa origanifolia), soyAP1 (Glycine max), soyAP2 (Glycine max), StAsp (Solanum tuberosum), WAP1 (Triticum aestivum), WAP2 (Triticum aestivum) |
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| MEROPS Classification | |
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| Classification | Clan AA >> Subclan (none) >> Family A1 >> Subfamily A >> A01.020 |
| Holotype | phytepsin (Hordeum vulgare), Uniprot accession P42210 (peptidase unit: 76-508), MERNUM MER0000949 |
| History | Identifier created: Handbook of Proteolytic Enzymes (1998) Academic Press, London. |
| Activity | |||
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| Catalytic type | Aspartic | ||
| Peplist | Included in the Peplist with identifier PL00017 | ||
| NC-IUBMB | Subclass 3.4 (Peptidases) >> Sub-subclass 3.4.23 (Aspartic endopeptidases) >> Peptidase 3.4.23.40 | ||
| Enzymology | BRENDA database | ||
| Proteolytic events | CutDB database (16 cleavages) | ||
| Biotechnology | Contributes to the malting of cereal grains. Forms from Centauria sp. and Cynara sp. have been used to coagulate milk in cheese making (e.g. Silva et al., 2000). | ||
| Physiology | Phytepsin is implicated in the germination of seeds and senescence of plant tissues (Terauchi et al., 2004; de Carvalho et al., 2004). | ||
| Cleavage site specificity | Explanations of how to interpret the following cleavage site sequence logo and specificity matrix can be found here. | ||
| Cleavage pattern | -/-/-/fl -/-/-/- (based on 62 cleavages) | ||
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