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Protease

Ribbon diagram of a protease (TEV protease) complexed with its peptide substrate in black with catalytic residues in red.(PDB: 1LVB​)

A protease (also called a peptidase, proteinase, or proteolytic enzyme)[1] is an enzyme that catalyzes proteolysis, breaking down proteins into smaller polypeptides or single amino acids, and spurring the formation of new protein products.[2] They do this by cleaving the peptide bonds within proteins by hydrolysis, a reaction where water breaks bonds. Proteases are involved in numerous biological pathways, including digestion of ingested proteins, protein catabolism (breakdown of old proteins),[3][4] and cell signaling.

In the absence of functional accelerants, proteolysis would be very slow, taking hundreds of years.[5] Proteases can be found in all forms of life and viruses. They have independently evolved multiple times, and different classes of protease can perform the same reaction by completely different catalytic mechanisms.

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  4. ^ Shen Y, Joachimiak A, Rosner MR, Tang WJ (October 2006). "Structures of human insulin-degrading enzyme reveal a new substrate recognition mechanism". Nature. 443 (7113): 870–874. Bibcode:2006Natur.443..870S. doi:10.1038/nature05143. PMC 3366509. PMID 17051221.
  5. ^ Radzicka A, Wolfenden R (July 1996). "Rates of Uncatalyzed Peptide Bond Hydrolysis in Neutral Solution and the Transition State Affinities of Proteases". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 118 (26): 6105–6109. doi:10.1021/ja954077c. To assess the relative proficiencies of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of internal and C-terminal peptide bonds [...]

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