UniProt functional annotation for P58502

UniProt code: P58502.

Organism: Thermococcus kodakarensis (strain ATCC BAA-918 / JCM 12380 / KOD1) (Pyrococcus kodakaraensis (strain KOD1)).
Taxonomy: Archaea; Euryarchaeota; Thermococci; Thermococcales; Thermococcaceae; Thermococcus.
 
Function: Has a broad substrate specificity with a slight preference to large hydrophobic amino acid residues at the P1 position.
 
Cofactor: Name=Ca(2+); Xref=ChEBI:CHEBI:29108;
Biophysicochemical properties: pH dependence: Optimum pH is 9.5.; Temperature dependence: Thermostable. Highly active at 80 degrees Celsius.;
Subunit: Monomer.
Subcellular location: Secreted.
Similarity: Belongs to the peptidase S8 family. {ECO:0000305}.

Annotations taken from UniProtKB at the EBI.