"Endopeptidase K" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of keratin, and of other proteins with subtilisin-like specificity. It hydrolyses peptide amides. Endopeptidase K is from the mold Tritirachium album Limber. (Enzyme Nomenclature, 1992) EC 3.4.21.64.
| Descriptor ID |
D019286
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D08.811.277.656.300.760.247 D08.811.277.656.959.350.247
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| Concept/Terms |
Endopeptidase K- Endopeptidase K
- Protease K
- Proteinase K
- Tritirachium Alkaline Proteinase
- Alkaline Proteinase, Tritirachium
- Proteinase, Tritirachium Alkaline
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| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Endopeptidase K" by people in Profiles.
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Nakayasu ES, Yashunsky DV, Nohara LL, Torrecilhas AC, Nikolaev AV, Almeida IC. GPIomics: global analysis of glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored molecules of Trypanosoma cruzi. Mol Syst Biol. 2009; 5:261.
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Ecroyd H, Koudelka T, Thorn DC, Williams DM, Devlin G, Hoffmann P, Carver JA. Dissociation from the oligomeric state is the rate-limiting step in fibril formation by kappa-casein. J Biol Chem. 2008 Apr 04; 283(14):9012-22.
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Pandhare J, Dash C, Rao M, Deshpande V. Slow tight binding inhibition of proteinase K by a proteinaceous inhibitor: conformational alterations responsible for conferring irreversibility to the enzyme-inhibitor complex. J Biol Chem. 2003 Dec 05; 278(49):48735-44.