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Semenogelase
Identifiers
EC no. 3.4.21.77
CAS no. 95829-41-7&title= 110157-83-0, 95829-41-7
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Semenogelase ( EC 3.4.21.77, prostate-specific antigen, alpha-seminoprotein, seminin, P-30 antigen, antigen (human clone HPSA-1 prostate-specific protein moiety reduced), gamma-seminoglycoprotein (human protein moiety reduced), gamma-SM, antigen PSA (human prostate-specific), human glandular kallikrein, antigen PSA (human clone 5P1 protein moiety reduced)) is an enzyme. [1] [2] This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction

Preferential cleavage: -Tyr-

This peptidase from trypsin family is present in seminal plasma.

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References

  1. ^ Digby M, Zhang XY, Richards RI (March 1989). "Human prostate specific antigen (PSA) gene: structure and linkage to the kallikrein-like gene, hGK-1". Nucleic Acids Research. 17 (5): 2137. doi: 10.1093/nar/17.5.2137. PMC  317563. PMID  2467258.
  2. ^ Christensson A, Laurell CB, Lilja H (December 1990). "Enzymatic activity of prostate-specific antigen and its reactions with extracellular serine proteinase inhibitors". European Journal of Biochemistry. 194 (3): 755–63. doi: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1990.tb19466.x. PMID  1702714.

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