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Designing a Western blot for PITRM1? The guide has the expected band size, antibodies backed by real blot images, the controls to run alongside, and protocols taken from published papers.
Open the PITRM1 Western Blot GuideFacts about Presequence protease, mitochondrial.
Specifically cleaves peptides in the range of 5 to 65 residues (PubMed:19196155). Shows a preference for cleavage after little polar residues and before basic residues, but with no positional preference (PubMed:10360838, PubMed:19196155, PubMed:24931469).
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | PITRM1 |
| Uniprot: | Q5JRX3 |
| Entrez: | 10531 |

| Belongs to: |
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| peptidase M16 family |

EC 3.4.24; EC 3.4.24.-; hPreP; Metalloprotease 1; MGC138192; MGC141929; pitrilysin metallopeptidase 1; Pitrilysin metalloproteinase 1mitochondrial; PreP
Mass (kDA):
117.413 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 10p15.2 |
| Sequence: | 10; NC_000010.11 (3137727..3172841, complement) |
Widely expressed. Expressed at higher level in muscle and heart compared to brain, pancreas, liver, lung and placenta.
Mitochondrion matrix.





PMID: 10360838 by Mzhavia N., et al. Cloning, expression, and characterization of human metalloprotease 1: a novel member of the pitrilysin family of metalloendoproteases.
PMID: 16849325 by Falkevall A., et al. Degradation of the amyloid beta-protein by the novel mitochondrial peptidasome, PreP.