ID:MMP21_HUMAN DESCRIPTION: RecName: Full=Matrix metalloproteinase-21; Short=MMP-21; EC=3.4.24.-; Flags: Precursor; FUNCTION: May have an important and specific function in tumor progression and embryogenesis. Cleaves alpha-1-antitrypsin. COFACTOR: Binds 1 zinc ion per subunit (By similarity). COFACTOR: Calcium (By similarity). SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: Secreted (Potential). TISSUE SPECIFICITY: Identified in fetal brain, kidney and liver. In adult tissues found primarily in ovary, kidney, liver, lung, placenta, brain and peripheral blood leukocytes. Expressed as well in various cancer cell lines. DOMAIN: The conserved cysteine present in the cysteine-switch motif binds the catalytic zinc ion, thus inhibiting the enzyme. The dissociation of the cysteine from the zinc ion upon the activation-peptide release activates the enzyme. PTM: The precursor is cleaved by a furin endopeptidase (By similarity). SIMILARITY: Belongs to the peptidase M10A family. SIMILARITY: Contains 4 hemopexin-like domains. WEB RESOURCE: Name=NIEHS-SNPs; URL="http://egp.gs.washington.edu/data/mmp21/";
The RNAfold program from the Vienna RNA Package is used to perform the secondary structure predictions and folding calculations. The estimated folding energy is in kcal/mol. The more negative the energy, the more secondary structure the RNA is likely to have.
ModBase Predicted Comparative 3D Structure on Q8N119
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Orthologous Genes in Other Species
Orthologies between human, mouse, and rat are computed by taking the best BLASTP hit, and filtering out non-syntenic hits. For more distant species reciprocal-best BLASTP hits are used. Note that the absence of an ortholog in the table below may reflect incomplete annotations in the other species rather than a true absence of the orthologous gene.
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Common Gene Haplotype Alleles 
