Protein Domain : IPR015571

Type:  Family Name:  Peptidase M1, aminopeptidase B
Description:  Metalloproteases are the most diverse of the four main types of protease, with more than 50 families identified to date. In these enzymes, a divalent cation, usually zinc, activates the water molecule. The metal ion is held in place by amino acid ligands, usually three in number. The known metal ligands are His, Glu, Asp or Lys and at least one other residue is required for catalysis, which may play an electrophillic role. Of the known metalloproteases, around half contain an HEXXH motif, which has been shown in crystallographic studies to form part of the metal-binding site []. The HEXXH motif is relatively common, but can be more stringently defined for metalloproteases as 'abXHEbbHbc', where 'a' is most often valine or threonine and forms part of the S1' subsite in thermolysin and neprilysin, 'b' is an uncharged residue, and 'c' a hydrophobic residue. Proline is never found in this site, possibly because it would break the helical structure adopted by this motif in metalloproteases [].This group of metallopeptidases belong to the MEROPS peptidase family M1 (clan MA(E)), the type example being aminopeptidase N from Homo sapiens(Human). The protein fold of the peptidase domain for members of this family resembles that of thermolysin, the type example for clan MA.This entry contains aminopeptidase B from eukaryotes. Short Name:  Pept_M1_aminopeptidase-B

0 Child Features

2 Contains

DB identifier Type Name
IPR015211 Domain Peptidase M1, leukotriene A4 hydrolase, aminopeptidase C-terminal
IPR014782 Domain Peptidase M1, membrane alanine aminopeptidase, N-terminal

1 Cross References

Identifier
PTHR11533:SF153

0 Found In

3 GO Annotations

GO Term Gene Name
GO:0004177 IPR015571
GO:0008270 IPR015571
GO:0005615 IPR015571

3 Ontology Annotations

GO Term Gene Name
GO:0004177 IPR015571
GO:0008270 IPR015571
GO:0005615 IPR015571

1 Parent Features

DB identifier Type Name
IPR001930 Family Peptidase M1, alanine aminopeptidase/leukotriene A4 hydrolase

0 Proteins

1 Publications

First Author Title Year Journal Volume Pages PubMed ID
            7674922