appears_in: []
depends_on: []
deprecated: false
description: The MEROPS database is an information resource for peptidases (also termed
  proteases, proteinases and proteolytic enzymes) and the proteins that inhibit them.
  This collections references inhibitors.
example: I31.952
example_extras:
- S01.001
homepage: http://merops.sanger.ac.uk/index.htm
keywords:
- biomedical science
- enzyme
- life science
- protein
- structure
mappings:
  biocontext: MEROPS.INHIBITOR
  edam: '2629'
  fairsharing: FAIRsharing.2s4n8r
  go: MEROPS
  miriam: merops.inhibitor
  n2t: merops.inhibitor
  prefixcommons: merops
name: MEROPS Entry
namespace_in_lui: false
pattern: ^[SCTAGMNUI]\d{2}\.([AB]\d{2}|\d{3})$
preferred_prefix: merops.entry
prefix: merops.entry
providers:
- code: bio2rdf
  description: Bio2RDF is an open-source project that uses Semantic Web technologies
    to build and provide the largest network of Linked Data for the Life Sciences.
    Bio2RDF defines a set of simple conventions to create RDF(S) compatible Linked
    Data from a diverse set of heterogeneously formatted sources obtained from multiple
    data providers.
  homepage: https://bio2rdf.org
  name: Bio2RDF
  uri_format: http://bio2rdf.org/merops:$1
publications:
- doi: 10.1093/nar/27.1.325
  pmc: PMC148173
  pubmed: '9847218'
  title: 'MEROPS: the peptidase database'
  year: 1999
- doi: 10.1042/bj2900205
  pmc: PMC1132403
  pubmed: '8439290'
  title: Evolutionary families of peptidases
  year: 1993
- doi: 10.1093/nar/gkx1134
  pmc: PMC5753285
  pubmed: '29145643'
  title: The MEROPS database of proteolytic enzymes, their substrates and inhibitors
    in 2017 and a comparison with peptidases in the PANTHER database
  year: 2018
- doi: 10.1093/nar/gkv1118
  pmc: PMC4702814
  pubmed: '26527717'
  title: Twenty years of the MEROPS database of proteolytic enzymes, their substrates
    and inhibitors
  year: 2015
- doi: 10.1016/j.biochi.2015.10.003
  pmc: PMC4756867
  pubmed: '26455268'
  title: Peptidase specificity from the substrate cleavage collection in the MEROPS
    database and a tool to measure cleavage site conservation
  year: 2015
- doi: 10.1093/nar/gkr987
  pmc: PMC3245014
  pubmed: '22086950'
  title: 'MEROPS: the database of proteolytic enzymes, their substrates and inhibitors'
  year: 2011
- doi: 10.1093/nar/gkm954
  pmc: PMC2238837
  pubmed: '17991683'
  title: 'MEROPS: the peptidase database'
  year: 2007
references:
- https://github.com/biopragmatics/bioregistry/issues/439
synonyms:
- merops.inhibitor
uri_format: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/merops/cgi-bin/pepsum?id=$1
