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Managing peptidases in the genomic eraAlan J Barrett
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxon, Cambridgeshire CB10 1SA, UK
Biol Chem 384:873-82. 2003..The peptidase classification has now been adopted for use by many other databases, and provides the structure around which the MEROPS protease database (http://merops.sanger.ac.uk) is built...
Pepsin homologues in bacteriaNeil D Rawlings
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SA, UK
BMC Genomics 10:437. 2009..The presence of a pepsin homologue in a prokaryote might give insights into the evolution of the pepsin family...
MEROPS: the database of proteolytic enzymes, their substrates and inhibitorsNeil D Rawlings
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1SA, UK
Nucleic Acids Res 40:D343-50. 2012....
MEROPS: the peptidase databaseNeil D Rawlings
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SA, UK
Nucleic Acids Res 36:D320-5. 2008..New ways to compare peptidase and inhibitor complements between any two organisms whose genomes have been completely sequenced, or between different strains or subspecies of the same organism, have been devised...
The MEROPS batch BLAST: a tool to detect peptidases and their non-peptidase homologues in a genomeNeil D Rawlings
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1SA, UK
Biochimie 90:243-59. 2008..A non-peptidase homologue can be distinguished by the absence or unacceptable replacement of any of these residues. An analysis of peptidase homologues in the genome of the bacterium Erythrobacter litoralis is presented as an example...
Peptidase inhibitors in the MEROPS databaseNeil D Rawlings
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1SA, UK
Biochimie 92:1463-83. 2010..Small molecule inhibitors are now included in MEROPS and over 160 summaries have been written...
Asparagine peptide lyases: a seventh catalytic type of proteolytic enzymesNeil David Rawlings
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1SA, United Kingdom
J Biol Chem 286:38321-8. 2011..We have assembled ten families based on sequence similarity in which cleavage is thought to be catalyzed by an asparagine...
MEROPS: the peptidase databaseNeil D Rawlings
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1SA, UK
Nucleic Acids Res 34:D270-2. 2006..A new way to display information at taxonomic levels higher than species has been devised. In the Literature pages, references have been flagged to draw attention to particularly 'hot' topics...
Evolutionary families of peptidase inhibitorsNeil D Rawlings
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1SA, UK
Biochem J 378:705-16. 2004..The system of families and clans of inhibitors described has been implemented in the MEROPS peptidase database (http://merops.sanger.ac.uk/), and this will provide a mechanism for updating it as new information becomes available...
MEROPS: the peptidase databaseNeil D Rawlings
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK
Nucleic Acids Res 32:D160-4. 2004..A new way of making hyperlinks to the database has been devised and a BlastP search of our library of peptidase and inhibitor sequences has been added...
MEROPS: the peptidase databaseNeil D Rawlings
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1SA, UK
Nucleic Acids Res 38:D227-33. 2010..This has allowed us to add an analysis tool to the relevant species pages to show significant gains and losses of peptidase genes relative to related species...
A comparison of Pfam and MEROPS: two databases, one comprehensive, and one specialisedDavid J Studholme
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
BMC Bioinformatics 4:17. 2003..An additional reason for carrying out this study was to explore the extent of consensus in the definition of a protein family...
The PepSY domain: a regulator of peptidase activity in the microbial environment?Corin Yeats
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1SA, UK
Trends Biochem Sci 29:169-72. 2004
'Species' of peptidasesAlan J Barrett
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK
Biol Chem 388:1151-7. 2007..We suggest that new forms of analysis of the sequences of the unassigned peptidases may give early indications of how they will cluster into the new species of the future...
Genome of the host-cell transforming parasite Theileria annulata compared with T. parvaArnab Pain
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK
Science 309:131-3. 2005....
The CHAP domain: a large family of amidases including GSP amidase and peptidoglycan hydrolasesAlex Bateman
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK CB10 1SA
Trends Biochem Sci 28:234-7. 2003..The large number of multifunctional hydrolases suggests that they might act in a cooperative manner to cleave specialized substrates...
Unusual phyletic distribution of peptidases as a tool for identifying potential drug targetsNeil D Rawlings
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SA, UK
Biochem J 401:e5-7. 2007..To understand how unusual this phyletic distribution is among the 183 families of peptidases, several other examples of horizontal transfers are presented, as well as some unusual losses of peptidase genes...
MEROPS: the protease databaseNeil D Rawlings
MRC Molecular Enzymology Laboratory, The Babraham Institute, Babraham, Cambridgeshire CB2 4AT, UK
Nucleic Acids Res 30:343-6. 2002....
Fxna, a novel gene differentially expressed in the rat ovary at the time of folliculogenesis, is required for normal ovarian histogenesisCecilia Garcia-Rudaz
Division of Neuroscience, Oregon National Primate Research Center, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, OR, USA
Development 134:945-57. 2007..As an endoplasmic reticulum-bound peptidase, Fxna may facilitate follicular organization by processing precursor proteins required for intraovarian cell-to-cell communication...
