Tripeptidyl peptidase II

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Tripeptidyl peptidase II
Identifiers
SymbolsTPP2; TPP-2
External IDsOMIM: 190470 MGI: 102724 HomoloGene: 2471 ChEMBL: 6156 GeneCards: TPP2 Gene
EC number3.4.14.10
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez717422019
EnsemblENSG00000134900ENSMUSG00000041763
UniProtP29144Q64514
RefSeq (mRNA)NM_003291NM_009418
RefSeq (protein)NP_003282NP_033444
Location (UCSC)Chr 13:
103.25 – 103.33 Mb
Chr 1:
43.93 – 44 Mb
PubMed search

Tripeptidyl-peptidase 2 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the TPP2 gene.[1][2] Among other things it is heavily implicated in MHC (HLA) class-I processing, as it has both endopeptidase and exopeptidase activity.[3]

References

  1. Tomkinson B, Jonsson AK (Feb 1991). "Characterization of cDNA for human tripeptidyl peptidase II: the N-terminal part of the enzyme is similar to subtilisin". Biochemistry 30 (1): 168–74. doi:10.1021/bi00215a025. PMID 1670990. 
  2. "Entrez Gene: TPP2 tripeptidyl peptidase II". 
  3. Reits E, Neijssen J, Herberts C et al. (April 2004). "A major role for TPPII in trimming proteasomal degradation products for MHC class I antigen presentation". Immunity 20 (4): 495–506. doi:10.1016/S1074-7613(04)00074-3. PMID 15084277. 

External links

  • The MEROPS online database for peptidases and their inhibitors: S08.090

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