IUBMB Enzyme Nomenclature

EC 3.4.23.21

Accepted name: rhizopuspepsin

Reaction: Hydrolysis of proteins with broad specificity similar to that of pepsin A, preferring hydrophobic residues at P1 and P1'. Clots milk and activates trypsinogen. Does not cleave Gln4-His, but does cleave His10Leu and Val12Glu in B chain of insulin

Other names: Rhizopus aspartic proteinase; neurase; Rhizopus acid protease; Rhizopus acid proteinase

Comments: From the zygomycete fungus Rhizopus chinensis. A similar endopeptidase is found in R. niveus [2]. In peptidase family A1 (pepsin A family). Formerly EC 3.4.23.9, and included in EC 3.4.23.6

Links to other databases: BRENDA, EXPASY, KEGG, MEROPS, Metacyc, PDB, CAS registry number: 9074-09-3

References:

1. Tsuru, D., Hattori, A., Tsuji, H., Yamamoto, T. and Fukumoto, J. Studies on mold proteases. Part II. Substrate specificity of acid protease of Rhizopus chinensis. Agric. Biol. Chem. 33 (1969) 1419-1426

2. Kurono, Y., Chidimatsu, M., Horikoshi, K. and Ikeda, Y. Isolation of a protease from a Rhizopus product. Agric. Biol. Chem. 35 (1971) 1668-1675

3. Ohtsuru, M., Tang, J. and Delaney, R. Purification and characterization of rhizopuspesin isozymes from a liquid culture of Rhizopus chinensis. Int. J. Biochem. 14 (1982) 925-932. [PMID: 6751894]

4. Suguna, K., Padlan, E.A., Smith, C.W., Carlson, W.D. and Davies, D.R. Binding of a reduced peptide inhibitor to the aspartic proteinase from Rhizopus chinensis: implications for a mechanism of action. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 84 (1987) 7009-7013. [PMID: 3313384]

[EC 3.4.23.21 created 1992 (EC 3.4.23.6 created 1992 (EC 3.4.23.6 created 1961 as EC 3.4.4.17, transferred 1972 to EC 3.4.23.6, modified 1981 [EC 3.4.23.7, EC 3.4.23.8, EC 3.4.23.9, EC 3.4.23.10, EC 3.4.99.1, EC 3.4.99.15 and EC 3.4.99.25 all created 1972 and incorporated 1978], part incorporated 1992)]


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