Biology:Thermopsin

Short description: Type of enzyme

Thermopsin (EC 3.4.23.42) is an enzyme.^[1] This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction

Similar in specificity to pepsin A preferring bulky hydrophobic amino acids in P1 and P1'

This enzyme is isolated from the thermophilic archeaon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius.

References

↑ Thermopsin. Methods in Enzymology. 248. 1995. pp. 156–68. doi:10.1016/0076-6879(95)48013-7.

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v t e Proteases: aspartate proteases (EC 3.4.23)
Vertebrate	Pepsin Chymosin Renin Signal peptide peptidase Beta secretase 1 2
Pathogenic	Plasmepsin HIV-1 protease
Plant	Nepenthesin
Cathepsin	D E

v t e Enzymes
Activity	Active site Binding site Catalytic triad Oxyanion hole Enzyme promiscuity Catalytically perfect enzyme Coenzyme Cofactor Enzyme catalysis
Regulation	Allosteric regulation Cooperativity Enzyme inhibitor Enzyme activator
Classification	EC number Enzyme superfamily Enzyme family List of enzymes
Kinetics	Enzyme kinetics Eadie–Hofstee diagram Hanes–Woolf plot Lineweaver–Burk plot Michaelis–Menten kinetics
Types	EC1 Oxidoreductases (list) EC2 Transferases (list) EC3 Hydrolases (list) EC4 Lyases (list) EC5 Isomerases (list) EC6 Ligases (list) EC7 Translocases (list)