Fruit bromelain

 ( Ec 3.4.22 ) 

Fruit bromelain (, juice bromelain, ananase, Bromelase (a trademark), bromelin, extranase, pinase, pineapple enzyme, traumanase, fruit bromelain FA2) is an enzyme. This enzyme catalysis the following chemical reaction

Hydrolysis of proteins with broad specificity for . Bz-Phe-Val-Arg-NHMec is a good synthetic substrate

This enzyme is isolated from pineapple plant, Ananas comosus.

• Bromelain