Reaction: Preferential release of a C-terminal arginine or lysine residue
Other name(s): cereal serine carboxypeptidase II; Saccharomyces cerevisiae KEX1 gene product; carboxypeptidase Kex1; gene KEX1 serine carboxypeptidase; KEX1 carboxypeptidase; KEX1 proteinase; KEX1DELTAp; CPDW-II; serine carboxypeptidase (misleading); Phaseolus proteinase
Comments: A carboxypeptidase with optimum pH 4.5-6.0, inhibited by diisopropyl fluorophosphate, and sensitive to thiol-blocking reagents (reviewed in [1]). In peptidase family S10 (carboxypeptidase C family).
Links to other databases: BRENDA, EXPASY, KEGG, MEROPS, Metacyc, PDB, CAS registry number: 153967-26-1
References:
1. Breddam, K. Serine carboxypeptidases. A review. Carlsberg Res. Commun. 51 (1986) 83-128.
2. Breddam, K., Sørensen, S.B. and Svendsen, I. Primary structure and enzymatic properties of carboxypeptidase II from wheat bran. Carlsberg Res. Commun. 52 (1987) 297-311.
3. Dmochowska, A., Dignard, D., Henning, D., Thomas, D.Y. and Bussey, H. Yeast KEX1 gene encodes a putative protease with a carboxypeptidase B-like function involved in killer toxin and α-factor precursor processing. Cell 50 (1987) 573-584. [PMID: 3301004]
4. Liao, D.-I., Breddam, K., Sweet, R.M., Bullock, T. and Remington, S.J. Refined atomic model of wheat serine carboxypeptidase II at 2.2-Å resolution. Biochemistry 31 (1992) 9796-9812. [PMID: 1390755]