Dipeptidase

Dipeptidases are enzymes secreted by enterocytes into the small intestine. Dipeptidases hydrolyze bound pairs of amino acids, called dipeptides.

Dipeptidases are secreted onto the brush border of the villi in the small intestine, where they cleave dipeptides into their two component amino acids prior to absorption. They are also found within the enterocytes themselves, performing cytosolic digestion of absorbed dipeptides.

Dipeptidases are exopeptidases, classified under EC number 3.4.13.^[1]

References

^ Dipeptidases at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

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Dipeptidases at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Hydrolase: proteases (EC 3.4)

3.4.11-19: Exopeptidase

3.4.11	Aminopeptidase Alanine Arginyl Aspartyl Cystinyl Leucyl Glutamyl Methionyl 1 2 O
3.4.13	Dipeptidase 1 2 3
3.4.14	Dipeptidyl peptidase Cathepsin C Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 Tripeptidyl peptidase Tripeptidyl peptidase I Tripeptidyl peptidase II
3.4.15	Angiotensin-converting enzyme
3.4.16	Serine type carboxypeptidases: Cathepsin A DD-transpeptidase
3.4.17	Metalloexopeptidases Carboxypeptidase A A2 B C E Glutamate II
Other/ungrouped	Metalloexopeptidase

3.4.21-25: Endopeptidase

Other/ungrouped: Amyloid precursor protein secretase

3.4.99: Unknown

Staphylokinase

v t e Enzymes
Activity	Active site Binding site Catalytic triad Oxyanion hole Enzyme promiscuity Diffusion-limited enzyme Cofactor Enzyme catalysis
Regulation	Allosteric regulation Cooperativity Enzyme inhibitor Enzyme activator
Classification	EC number Enzyme superfamily Enzyme family List of enzymes
Kinetics	Enzyme kinetics Eadie–Hofstee diagram Hanes–Woolf plot Lineweaver–Burk plot Michaelis–Menten kinetics
Types	EC1 Oxidoreductases (list) EC2 Transferases (list) EC3 Hydrolases (list) EC4 Lyases (list) EC5 Isomerases (list) EC6 Ligases (list) EC7 Translocases (list)