CPB2

carboxypeptidase B2

Summary

Carboxypeptidases are enzymes that hydrolyze C-terminal peptide bonds. The carboxypeptidase family includes metallo-, serine, and cysteine carboxypeptidases. According to their substrate specificity, these enzymes are referred to as carboxypeptidase A (cleaving aliphatic residues) or carboxypeptidase B (cleaving basic amino residues). The protein encoded by this gene is activated by trypsin and acts on carboxypeptidase B substrates. After thrombin activation, the mature protein downregulates fibrinolysis. Polymorphisms have been described for this gene and its promoter region. Alternate splicing results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Jun 2013]

Known Variants41 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs13826929013:46,627,806A/Glikely benign
rs75586217913:46,627,837A/Guncertain significance
rs953430013:46,629,225A/G
rs139056895013:46,629,903T/Cuncertain significance
rs192644713:46,629,944A/Gmissense variantbenign
rs75477322113:46,629,966C/Tuncertain significance
rs18464840213:46,629,978C/Auncertain significance
rs227744013:46,638,826A/Gbenign
rs37477636513:46,638,842G/Auncertain significance
rs14526214913:46,638,844A/Glikely benign
rs953430213:46,640,055C/Tintron variant
rs656128313:46,640,837A/Gintron variant
rs733636013:46,641,081T/Aintron variant
rs952613713:46,641,249A/Gintron variant
rs952613813:46,641,263G/T
rs931617913:46,641,466A/Gbenign
rs733714013:46,641,481T/Cbenign
rs953430513:46,642,156G/C
rs956263513:46,642,992T/Cintron variant
rs956263613:46,643,024T/Cintron variant
rs1784408013:46,644,405T/A
rs494247113:46,644,493C/Tintron variant
rs953430913:46,647,537C/Gintron variant
rs20023194213:46,648,047T/Clikely benign
rs374226413:46,648,094T/Cbenign
rs102295113:46,649,454G/Aintron variant
rs953431113:46,650,121A/Gintron variant
rs953431313:46,650,546A/Gintron variant
rs956761513:46,651,080A/Cintron variant
rs956761713:46,651,108C/Gintron variant
rs1157498913:46,652,995A/Gbenign
rs99748903013:46,653,035A/Guncertain significance
rs11718882713:46,655,217C/Tintron variant
rs37479571113:46,656,607G/Auncertain significance
rs14087111913:46,656,611C/Alikely benign
rs229664213:46,656,669A/Gbenign
rs126980044813:46,658,361G/Auncertain significance
rs254929703313:46,658,373C/Tuncertain significance
rs36838161513:46,658,432T/Guncertain significance
rs75456055813:46,661,959G/Clikely benign
rs1784415013:46,679,206C/Tregulatory region variant

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.