CATH Classification

Domain Context

CATH Clusters

Superfamily 3.10.170.10
Functional Family

Enzyme Information

3.4.24.27
Thermolysin.
based on mapping to UniProt P00800
Preferential cleavage: Xaa-|-Leu > Xaa-|-Phe.
-!- A thermostable extracellular metalloendopeptidase containing four calcium ions. -!- Enzymes that may be species variants of thermolysin are reported from Micrococcus caseolyticus and Aspergillus oryzae. -!- Closely related but distinct enzymes are aeromonolysin, pseudolysin, bacillolysin, aureolysin and mycolysin. -!- Belongs to peptidase family M4. -!- Formerly EC 3.4.24.4.

UniProtKB Entries (1)

P00800
THER_BACTH
Bacillus thermoproteolyticus
Thermolysin

PDB Structure

PDB 1QF2
External Links
Method X-RAY DIFFRACTION
Organism
Primary Citation
Crystal structures of alpha-mercaptoacyldipeptides in the thermolysin active site: structural parameters for a Zn monodentation or bidentation in metalloendopeptidases.
Gaucher, J.F., Selkti, M., Tiraboschi, G., Prange, T., Roques, B.P., Tomas, A., Fournie-Zaluski, M.C.
Biochemistry