IgA-specific metalloendopeptidase

IgA-specific metalloendopeptidase (EC 3.4.24.13, immunoglobulin A1 proteinase, IgA protease, IgA1-specific proteinase, IgA1 protease, IgA1 proteinase) is an enzyme. This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction:

Cleavage of Pro-Thr bond in the hinge region of the heavy chain of human immunoglobulin A

This enzyme is present in several pathogenic species of Streptococcus.

Other species, for instance bacteria that cause meningitis, gonorrhea, some cases of pneumonia, sinusitis and ear infections also produce an enzyme that cleaves IgA, but this is a serine protease and is metal-independent.

References

Kornfeld SJ, Plaut AG (1981). "Secretory immunity and the bacterial IgA proteases". Reviews of Infectious Diseases. 3 (3): 521–34. doi:10.1093/clinids/3.3.521. PMID 6792682.
Gilbert JV, Plaut AG, Wright A (January 1991). "Analysis of the immunoglobulin A protease gene of Streptococcus sanguis". Infection and Immunity. 59 (1): 7–17. PMC 257698. PMID 1987065.
Gilbert JV, Plaut AG, Fishman Y, Wright A (August 1988). "Cloning of the gene encoding streptococcal immunoglobulin A protease and its expression in Escherichia coli". Infection and Immunity. 56 (8): 1961–6. PMC 259508. PMID 3294181.
Parsons HK, Vitovski S, Sayers JR (December 2004). "Immunoglobulin A1 proteases: a structure-function update". Biochemical Society Transactions. 32 (Pt 6): 1130–2. doi:10.1042/BST0321130. PMID 15506988.

External links

IgA-specific+metalloendopeptidase at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

v t e Proteases: metalloendopeptidases (EC 3.4.24)
ADAM proteins	Alpha secretases ADAM9 ADAM10 ADAM17 ADAM19 ADAM2 ADAM7 ADAM8 ADAM11 ADAM12 ADAM15 ADAM18 ADAM22 ADAM23 ADAM28 ADAM33 ADAMTS1 ADAMTS2 ADAMTS3 ADAMTS4 ADAMTS5 ADAMTS8 ADAMTS9 ADAMTS10 ADAMTS12 ADAMTS13
Matrix metalloproteinases	Collagenases MMP1 MMP8 Gelatinases MMP2 MMP9 MMP3 MMP7 MMP10 MMP11 MMP12 MMP13 MMP14 MMP15 MMP16 MMP17 MMP19 MMP20 MMP21 MMP23A MMP23B MMP24 MMP25 MMP26 MMP27 MMP28
Other	Neprilysin Procollagen peptidase Thermolysin Pregnancy-associated plasma protein A Bone morphogenetic protein 1 Lysostaphin Insulin-degrading enzyme ZMPSTE24

v t e 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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EC 3.4.24