Publications describing MEROPS

The most comprehensive literature resource that is built around the MEROPS classification is the Handbook of Proteolytic Enzymes (Barrett, A.J., Rawlings, N.D. & Woessner, J.F., eds), Elsevier, 2004.

The full list of relevant publications is:

1. Rawlings, N.D. & Barrett, A.J. (1993) Evolutionary families of peptidases. Biochem J 290, 205-218.  PubMed

2. Rawlings, N.D. & Barrett, A.J. (1994) Families of serine peptidases. Methods Enzymol 244, 19-61.  PubMed

3. Rawlings, N.D. & Barrett, A.J. (1994) Families of cysteine peptidases. Methods Enzymol 244, 461-486.  PubMed

4. Rawlings, N.D. & Barrett, A.J. (1995) Families of aspartic peptidases, and those of unknown catalytic mechanism. Methods Enzymol 248, 105-120.  PubMed

5. Rawlings, N.D. & Barrett, A.J. (1995) Evolutionary families of metallopeptidases. Methods Enzymol 248, 183-228.  PubMed

6. Barrett, A.J. & Rawlings, N.D. (1995) Families and clans of serine peptidases. Arch Biochem Biophys 318, 247-250.  PubMed

7. Barrett, A.J. & Rawlings, N.D. (1996) Families and clans of cysteine peptidases. Perspect Drug Discov Design 6, 1-11.

8. Rawlings, N.D. & Barrett, A.J. (1997) Classification of peptidases by comparisons of primary and secondary structures. In: Proteolysis in Cell Functions (Eds Hopsu-Havu,V.K.; Järvinen,M.; Kirschke,H), pp. 13-21, IOS Press, Amsterdam.

9. Barrett, A.J., Rawlings, N.D. & Woessner, J.F. (eds) (1998) Handbook of Proteolytic Enzymes, Academic Press, London.

10. Chen, J.-M., Rawlings, N. D. & Barrett, A. J. (1998) Identification of the active site of legumain links it to caspases, clostripain and gingipains in a new clan of cysteine endopeptidases.FEBS Lett 441, 361-365.  PubMed

11. Rawlings, N.D. & Barrett, A.J. (1999) MEROPS: the peptidase database. Nucleic Acids Res 27, 325-331.  PubMed

12. Rawlings, N.D. & Barrett, A.J. (2000) MEROPS: the peptidase database. Nucleic Acids Res 28, 323-325.  PubMed

13. Barrett, A.J. & Rawlings, N.D. (2001) Evolutionary lines of cysteine peptidases. Biol Chem 382, 727-733.  PubMed

14. Barrett, A.J., Rawlings, N.D. & O'Brien, E. A. (2001) The MEROPS database as a protease information system. J Struct Biol 134, 95-102.  PubMed

15. Rawlings, N.D., O'Brien, E.A. & Barrett, A.J. (2002) MEROPS: the protease database. Nucleic Acids Res 30, 343-346.  PubMed

16. Studholme, D.J., Rawlings, N.D., Barrett, A.J. & Bateman, A. (2003) A comparison of Pfam and MEROPS: two databases, one comprehensive, and one specialised BMC Bioinformatics 4, 17.  PubMed

17. Rawlings, N.D., Tolle, D.P. & Barrett, A.J. (2004) MEROPS: the peptidase database. Nucleic Acids Res. 32 Database issue, D160-D164.  PubMed

18. Barrett, A.J., Rawlings, N.D. & Woessner, J.F. (eds) (2004) Handbook of Proteolytic Enzymes, 2nd edition, Academic Press, London.

19. Barrett, A.J. (2004) Bioinformatics of proteases in the MEROPS database. Curr Opin Drug Discov Devel 7, 334-341.  PubMed

20. Rawlings, N.D., Tolle, D.P. & Barrett, A.J. (2004) Evolutionary families of peptidase inhibitors. Biochem J 378, 705-716.  PubMed

21. Rawlings, N.D., Morton, F.R. & Barrett, A.J. (2006) MEROPS: the peptidase database Nucleic Acids Res. 34 Database issue, D270-D272.  PubMed

22. Barrett, A.J. & Rawlings, N.D. (2007) 'Species' of peptidases Biol. Chem. 388, 1151-1157.  PubMed

23. Rawlings, N.D., Morton, F.R., Kok, C.Y., Kong, J. & Barrett, A.J. (2008) MEROPS: the peptidase database Nucleic Acids Res. 36 Database issue, D320-D325.  PubMed

24. Rawlings, N.D. & Morton, F.R. (2008) The MEROPS batch BLAST: A tool to detect peptidases and their non-peptidase homologues in a genome Biochimie 90, 243-59.  PubMed

25. Rawlings, N.D. (2009) A large and accurate collection of peptidase cleavages in the MEROPS database Database in press.

26. Rawlings, N.D., Barrett, A.J. & Bateman, A. (2010) MEROPS: the peptidase database Nucleic Acids Res. in press.  PubMed