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 P43133
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)

P43133
THER_GEOSE
Geobacillus stearothermophilus
Thermolysin

PDB Structure

PDB 6FSM
External Links
Method X-RAY DIFFRACTION
Organism
Primary Citation
Improved protein-crystal identification by using 2,2,2-trichloroethanol as a fluorescence enhancer.
Pichlo, C., Toelzer, C., Chojnacki, K., Ocal, S., Uthoff, M., Ruegenberg, S., Hermanns, T., Schacherl, M., Denzel, M.S., Hofmann, K., Niefind, K., Baumann, U.
Acta Crystallogr F Struct Biol Commun