bonds
Reaction: Release of protein hormones, neuropeptides and renin from their precursors, generally by hydrolysis of -Lys-Arg bonds
Other names: prohormone convertase 3; neuroendocrine convertase 1; PC1
Comments: A Ca2+-dependent enzyme, maximally active at about pH 5.5. Substrates include pro-opiomelanocortin, prorenin, proenkephalin, prodynorphin, prosomatostatin and proinsulin. Unlike prohormone convertase 2, does not hydrolyse proluteinizing-hormone-releasing-hormone. Unusually, processing of prodynorphin occurs at a bond in which P2 is Thr. Present in the regulated secretory pathway of neuroendocrine cells, commonly acting co-operatively with prohormone convertase 2. In peptidase family S8 (subtilisin family)
Links to other databases: BRENDA, EXPASY, KEGG, MEROPS, Metacyc, PDB, CAS registry number: 99676-46-7
References
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3. Steiner, D.F., Smeekens, S.P., Ohagi, S. and Chan, S.J. The new enzymology of precursor processing endoproteases. J. Biol. Chem. 267 (1992) 23435-23438. [PMID: 1429684]
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