M48 YhfN-like protease is considered as a CaaX prenyl protease 1 homolog, with most of the sequences in this family as yet uncharacterized. It contains the zinc metalloprotease motif (HEXXH), likely exposed on the cytoplasmic side. It is probably associated with the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), regardless of whether its genes possess the conventional signal motif (KKXX) in the C-terminal. Proteins in this family proteolytically remove the C-terminal three residues of farnesylated proteins. This novel family of related proteins consist of the soluble minimal scaffold similar to the catalytic domains of the integral-membrane metallopeptidase M48 and M56, thus called minigluzincins.
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