metallopeptidase activity
Term Information
- Accession
- GO:0008237
- Ontology
- molecular function
- Synonyms
- exact: metalloprotease activity
- exact: metalloproteinase activity
- Definition
- Catalysis of the hydrolysis of peptide bonds by a mechanism in which water acts as a nucleophile, one or two metal ions hold the water molecule in place, and charged amino acid side chains are ligands for the metal ions. [source:
GOC:mah, http://merops.sanger.ac.uk/about/about_9.htm#CATTYPE]
- Comment
- None
- Subset
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HAMAP (4)
