Atroxase
| Atroxase | |||||||||
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| Identifiers | |||||||||
| EC no. | 3.4.24.43 | ||||||||
| CAS no. | 181186-94-7 | ||||||||
| 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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Atroxase (EC 3.4.24.43) is an enzyme.[1] This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction
- Cleavage of His5-Leu, Ser9-His, His10-Leu, Ala14-Leu and Tyr16-Leu of insulin B chain
This endopeptidase is present in the venom of the western diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox).
References
[edit]- ↑ Willis TW, Tu AT (June 1988). "Purification and biochemical characterization of atroxase, a nonhemorrhagic fibrinolytic protease from western diamondback rattlesnake venom". Biochemistry. 27 (13): 4769–77. doi:10.1021/bi00413a028. PMID 3167016.
External links
[edit]- Atroxase at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
