Mucrolysin

{{Infobox enzyme | Name = Mucrolysin | EC_number = 3.4.24.54 | CAS_number = 85898-38-0 | GO_code = | image = | width = | caption = }} {{Infobox nonhuman protein |UniProt=O57413 |Name=Zinc metalloproteinase/disintegrin |Organism=Protobothrops mucrosquamatus }} '''Mucrolysin''' ({{EC number|3.4.24.54}}, ''Trimeresurus metalloendopeptidase A'', ''mucrotoxin A'') is an enzyme.<ref>{{cite journal | title = Purification and properties of a lethal, hemorrhagic protein, "mucrotoxin A", from the venom of the Chinese habu snake (''Trimeresurus mucrosquamatus'') | vauthors = Sugihara H, Moriura M, Nikai T |journal = Toxicon |date = 1983 |volume = 21 | issue = 2 |pages = 247–255 |pmid = 6857709 |doi=10.1016/0041-0101(83)90009-0 | bibcode = 1983Txcn...21..247S }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Kishida M, Nikai T, Mori N, Kohmura S, Sugihara H | title = Characterization of mucrotoxin A from the venom of Trimeresurus mucrosquamatus (the Chinese habu snake) | journal = Toxicon | volume = 23 | issue = 4 | pages = 637–45 | date = 1985 | pmid = 3904081 | doi = 10.1016/0041-0101(85)90368-x | bibcode = 1985Txcn...23..637K }}</ref> This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction

: Cleavage of Ser⁹-His, His¹⁰-Leu, Ala¹⁴-Leu, Leu¹⁵-Tyr and Tyr¹⁶-Leu bonds in insulin B chain

This endopeptidase from the venom of Taiwan habu snake (''Protobothrops mucrosquamatus'').

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Category:EC 3.4.24