“…We have reported the identification, purification and characterization of DAP BI (bacterial dipeptidyl aminopeptidase; Ogasawara, Ochiai et al, 1996;Ogasawara et al, 1998), DAP BII (Ogasawara, Kobayashi et al, 1996), DAP BIII (Ogasawara, Kobayashi et al, 1996) and DAP IV (Ogasawara, Ogawa et al, 1996;Ogasawara et al, 2005) from Pseudoxanthomonas mexicana WO24, which is a Gram-negative aerobic bacterium isolated from the wastewater of a bean curd (tofu) factory. On the basis of the enzymological data that we obtained, we proposed that bacterial DAPs should be classified in a manner different from that of mammalian DPPs, except for DAP IV (Ogasawara, Kobayashi et al, 1996).…”