title: ProLysED: an integrated database and meta-server of bacterial protease systems.
abstract: Bacterial proteases are an important group of enzymes that have very diverse biochemical and cellular functions. Proteases from prokaryotic sources also have a wide range of uses, either in medicine as pathogenic factors or in industry and therapeutics. ProLysED (Prokaryotic Lysis Enzymes Database), our meta-server integrated database of bacterial proteases, is a useful, albeit very niche, resource. The features include protease classification browsing and searching, organism-specific protease browsing, molecular information and visualisation of protease structures from the Protein Data Bank (PDB) as well as predicted protease structures.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  ProLysED is integrated into the ProLysES (Prokaryotic Lysis Enzymes Site) website at http://genome.ukm.my/prolyses/. Access to the ProLysED database is free for academic users upon registration.
authors.affiliation: School of BioSciences and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia. mfirr@pkrisc.cc.ukm.my
authors.forename: Mohd
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Firdaus Raih
authors.forename: Hafiza Aida
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Ahmad
authors.forename: Mohd Yunus
authors.initials: MY
authors.lastname: Sharum
authors.forename: Norazah
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Azizi
authors.forename: Rahmah
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mohamed
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000145:classification; D003196:Computer Graphics; D003628:Database Management Systems; D030562:Databases, Protein; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010447:Peptide Hydrolases / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000145:classification; D011487:Protein Conformation; D018511:Systems Integration; D014584:User-Computer Interface
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D010447:Peptide Hydrolases