Martin Helme

N-formylmethionyl-peptidase (EC 3.4.19.7, (fMet)-releasing enzyme, formylmethionine aminopeptidase) is an enzyme.^[1] This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction

This enzyme is highly specific for N-formylmethionyl peptides.

References

^ Suda H, Yamamoto K, Aoyagi T, Umezawa H (November 1980). "Purification and properties of N-formylmethionine aminopeptidase from rat liver". Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Enzymology. 616 (1): 60–7. doi:10.1016/0005-2744(80)90263-6. PMID 7437450.

3.4.11	Aminopeptidase Alanine Arginyl Aspartyl Cystinyl Leucyl Glutamyl Methionyl 1 2 O
3.4.13	Dipeptidase 1 2 3
3.4.14	Dipeptidyl peptidase Cathepsin C Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 Tripeptidyl peptidase Tripeptidyl peptidase I Tripeptidyl peptidase II
3.4.15	Angiotensin-converting enzyme
3.4.16	Serine type carboxypeptidases: Cathepsin A DD-Transpeptidase
3.4.17	Metalloexopeptidases Carboxypeptidase A A2 B C E Glutamate II
Other/ungrouped	Metalloexopeptidase

3.4.99: Unknown

Enzymes
Activity	Active site Binding site Catalytic triad Oxyanion hole Enzyme promiscuity Diffusion-limited enzyme Cofactor Enzyme catalysis
Regulation	Allosteric regulation Cooperativity Enzyme inhibitor Enzyme activator
Classification	EC number Enzyme superfamily Enzyme family List of enzymes
Kinetics	Enzyme kinetics Eadie–Hofstee diagram Hanes–Woolf plot Lineweaver–Burk plot Michaelis–Menten kinetics
Types	EC1 Oxidoreductases (list) EC2 Transferases (list) EC3 Hydrolases (list) EC4 Lyases (list) EC5 Isomerases (list) EC6 Ligases (list) EC7 Translocases (list)

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