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Facts about Carboxypeptidase Z.
May play a role in cleavage during prohormone processing. .
Human | |
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Gene Name: | CPZ |
Uniprot: | Q66K79 |
Entrez: | 8532 |
Belongs to: |
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peptidase M14 family |
Carboxypeptidase Z
Mass (kDA):
73.655 kDA
Human | |
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Location: | 4p16.1 |
Sequence: | 4; NC_000004.12 (8592660..8619761) |
In placenta, it is present within invasive trophoblasts and in the surrounding extracellular space. Also present in amnion cells, but is not readily apparent in the extracellular matrix of this cell type. Present in normal pituitary gland and neoplastic pituitary gland (especially POMC-, GH- and PRL-producing adenomas) (at protein level). Widely expressed.
Secreted, extracellular space, extracellular matrix.
PMID: 9099699 by Song L., et al. Cloning and expression of human carboxypeptidase Z, a novel metallocarboxypeptidase.
PMID: 10080937 by Novikova E.G., et al. Purification and characterization of human metallocarboxypeptidase Z.