Tissue kallikrein | |||||||||
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Identifiers | |||||||||
EC no. | 3.4.21.35 | ||||||||
CAS no. | 389069-73-2 | ||||||||
Databases | |||||||||
IntEnz | IntEnz view | ||||||||
BRENDA | BRENDA entry | ||||||||
ExPASy | NiceZyme view | ||||||||
KEGG | KEGG entry | ||||||||
MetaCyc | metabolic pathway | ||||||||
PRIAM | profile | ||||||||
PDB structures | RCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum | ||||||||
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Renal tissue kallikrein (EC 3.4.21.35, glandular kallikrein, pancreatic kallikrein, submandibular kallikrein, submaxillary kallikrein, kidney kallikrein, urinary kallikrein, kallikrein , salivary kallikrein, kininogenin, kininogenase, callicrein, glumorin, padreatin, padutin, kallidinogenase, bradykininogenase, depot-padutin, urokallikrein, dilminal D, onokrein P) is an enzyme. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [ excessive citations ]
Renal tissue kallikrein is formed from kidney tissue prokallikrein by activation with the enzyme trypsin. It catalyses the chemical reaction causing preferential cleavage of Arg- bonds in small molecule substrates, acting to highly selectively release kallidin (lysyl-bradykinin, a bioactive kinin) from kininogen (a kinin protein precursor).