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Serralysin

class of enzymes

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 28, 2024
Entity authorityQ13099940 ↗
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Serralysin (EC 3.4.24.40, Pseudomonas aeruginosa alkaline proteinase, Escherichia freundii proteinase, Serratia marcescens extracellular proteinase, Serratia marcescens metalloproteinase, Pseudomonas aeruginosa alk. protease, Serratia marcescens metalloprotease) is an enzyme. This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction

Preferential cleavage of bonds with hydrophobic residues in P1'

This extracellular endopeptidase is present in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia freundii, Serratia marcescens and Erwinia chrysanthemi.

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This entry incorporates text from “Serralysin” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.