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Facts about Angiotensin-converting enzyme.
Has also a glycosidase activity that releases GPI-anchored proteins from the membrane by cleaving the mannose linkage from the GPI moiety. .
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Gene Name: | ACE |
Uniprot: | P12821 |
Entrez: | 1636 |
Belongs to: |
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peptidase M2 family |
ACE; ACE1angiotensin converting enzyme, somatic isoform; angiotensin I converting enzyme (peptidyl-dipeptidase A) 1; carboxycathepsin; CD143 antigen; CD143; DCP; DCP1; DCP1angiotensin-converting enzyme; dipeptidyl carboxypeptidase 1; Dipeptidyl carboxypeptidase I; EC 3.2.1.-; EC 3.4.15.1; Kininase II; MGC26566; MVCD3; peptidase P; testicular ECA
Mass (kDA):
149.715 kDA
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Location: | 17q23.3 |
Sequence: | 17; NC_000017.11 (63477061..63498373) |
Ubiquitously expressed, with highest levels in lung, kidney, heart, gastrointestinal system and prostate. Isoform Testis-specific is expressed in spermatocytes and adult testis.
[Angiotensin-converting enzyme, soluble form]: Secreted.; Cell membrane; Single-pass type I membrane protein. Cytoplasm. Detected in both cell membrane and cytoplasm in neurons.
PMID: 2849100 by Soubrier F., et al. Two putative active centers in human angiotensin I-converting enzyme revealed by molecular cloning.
PMID: 2547653 by Lattion A.L., et al. The testicular transcript of the angiotensin I-converting enzyme encodes for the ancestral, non-duplicated form of the enzyme.
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