Anthrax lethal factor endopeptidase

Anthrax lethal factor endopeptidase (EC 3.4.24.83, lethal toxin) is an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of mitogen-activated protein kinase kinases. This enzyme is a component of the lethal factor produced by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis. The preferred cleavage site can be denoted by BBBBxHxH, in which B denotes a basic amino acid Arg or Lys, H denotes a hydrophobic amino acid, and x is any amino acid.^[2]

Anthrax lethal factor endopeptidase
Crystallographic structure of anthrax lethal factor (rainbow colored cartoon, N-terminus = blue, C-terminus = red) complexed with the inhibitor GM6001 (space-filling model, carbon = white, oxygen = red, nitrogen = blue).[1]
Identifiers
EC no.	3.4.24.83
CAS no.	477950-41-7
Databases
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BRENDA	BRENDA entry
ExPASy	NiceZyme view
KEGG	KEGG entry
MetaCyc	metabolic pathway
PRIAM	profile
PDB structures	RCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum
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