PCOLCE

Procollagen C-endopeptidase enhancer

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Identifiers
Symbols PCOLCE; PCPE; PCPE-1; PCPE1
External IDs OMIM600270 MGI105099 HomoloGene1946 GeneCards: PCOLCE Gene
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez 5118 18542
Ensembl ENSG00000106333 ENSMUSG00000029718
UniProt Q15113 Q3TX39
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_002593 NM_008788.2
RefSeq (protein) NP_002584 NP_032814.2
Location (UCSC) Chr 7:
100.2 – 100.21 Mb
Chr 5:
138.05 – 138.06 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]

Procollagen C-endopeptidase enhancer 1 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the PCOLCE gene.[1][2][3]

Fibrillar collagen types I-III are synthesized as precursor molecules known as procollagens. These precursors contain amino- and carboxyl-terminal peptide extensions known as N- and C-propeptides, respectively, which are cleaved, upon secretion of procollagen from the cell, to yield the mature triple helical, highly structured fibrils. This gene encodes a glycoprotein which binds and drives the enzymatic cleavage of type I procollagen and heightens C-proteinase activity.[3]

References

  1. ^ Takahara K, Osborne L, Elliott RW, Tsui LC, Scherer SW, Greenspan DS (Mar 1997). "Fine mapping of the human and mouse genes for the type I procollagen COOH-terminal proteinase enhancer protein". Genomics 31 (2): 253–6. doi:10.1006/geno.1996.0043. PMID 8824813. 
  2. ^ Glockner G, Scherer S, Schattevoy R, Boright A, Weber J, Tsui LC, Rosenthal A (Dec 1998). "Large-scale sequencing of two regions in human chromosome 7q22: analysis of 650 kb of genomic sequence around the EPO and CUTL1 loci reveals 17 genes". Genome Res 8 (10): 1060–73. doi:10.1101/gr.8.10.1060. PMC 310788. PMID 9799793. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=310788. 
  3. ^ a b "Entrez Gene: PCOLCE procollagen C-endopeptidase enhancer". http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=5118. 

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