Ananain
| Ananain | |||||||||
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| Identifiers | |||||||||
| EC no. | 3.4.22.31 | ||||||||
| CAS no. | 119129-70-3 | ||||||||
| Databases | |||||||||
| BRENDA | enzyme data | ||||||||
| ExPASy | NiceZyme view | ||||||||
| KEGG | enzyme entry | ||||||||
| MetaCyc | metabolic pathway | ||||||||
| Rhea | reactions | ||||||||
| PDB structures | RCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum | ||||||||
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Ananain (EC 3.4.22.31, stem bromelain, fruit bromelain) is an enzyme.[1][2] This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction
- Hydrolysis of proteins with broad specificity for peptide bonds. Best reported small molecule substrate Bz-Phe-Val-Arg-NHMec
This enzyme is isolated from stem of pineapple plant, Ananas comosus.
References
[edit]- ↑ Rowan AD, Buttle DJ, Barrett AJ (November 1988). "Ananain: a novel cysteine proteinase found in pineapple stem". Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 267 (1): 262–70. doi:10.1016/0003-9861(88)90031-8. PMID 3196029.
- ↑ Rowan AD, Buttle DJ, Barrett AJ (March 1990). "The cysteine proteinases of the pineapple plant". The Biochemical Journal. 266 (3): 869–75. PMC 1131219. PMID 2327970.
External links
[edit]- Ananain at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
