| EC |
3.4.19.12 |
| Accepted name: |
ubiquitinyl hydrolase 1 |
| Reaction: |
Thiol-dependent hydrolysis of ester, thioester, amide, peptide and isopeptide bonds formed by the C-terminal Gly of ubiquitin (a 76-residue protein attached to proteins as an intracellular targeting signal) |
| Other name(s): |
ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase; yeast ubiquitin hydrolase |
| Comments: |
Links to polypeptides smaller than 60 residues are hydrolysed more readily than those to larger polypeptides. Isoforms exist with quantitatively different specificities, amongst the best known being UCH-L1 and UCH-L3, which are major proteins of the brain of mammals [1]. Inhibited by ubiquitin aldehyde (in which Gly76 is replaced by aminoacetaldehyde). Ubiquitinyl hydrolase 1 is the type example of peptidase family C12, with a similar protein fold to papain and catalytic amino acids Cys, His and Asp. There is a separate family (C19) of enzymes that also hydrolyse ubiquitinyl bonds, and it is thought that all the ubiquitinyl hydrolases are also ubiquitin thiolesterases (EC 3.1.2.15) |
| Links to other databases: |
BRENDA, EXPASY, KEGG, MetaCyc, MEROPS, PDB, CAS registry number: 86480-67-3, 189642-63-5 |
| References: |
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Johnston, S.C., Larsen, C.N., Cook, W.J., Wilkinson, K.D. and Hill, C.P. Crystal structure of a deubiquitinating enzyme (human UCH-L3) at 1.8Å resolution. EMBO J. 16 (1997) 3787–3796. [DOI] [PMID: 9233788] |
| 2. |
Wilkinson, K.D. Ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase. In: Barrett, A.J., Rawlings, N.D. and Woessner, J.F. (Ed.), Handbook of Proteolytic Enzymes, Academic Press, London, 1998, pp. 470–472. |
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