CATH Classification

Domain Context

CATH Clusters

Superfamily Neutral Protease Domain 2
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 1TRL
External Links
Method SOLUTION NMR
Organism
Primary Citation
NMR solution structure of the C-terminal fragment 255-316 of thermolysin: a dimer formed by subunits having the native structure.
Rico, M., Jimenez, M.A., Gonzalez, C., De Filippis, V., Fontana, A.
Biochemistry