Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Predicted to enable metallocarboxypeptidase activity. Predicted to be involved in proteolysis involved in protein catabolic process and response to cadmium ion. Predicted to be located in extracellular region. Predicted to be active in extracellular space. Is expressed in several structures, including foregut-midgut junction and ovary. Used to study pancreatitis. Orthologous to human CPA1 (carboxypeptidase A1).