Dipeptidase 3 Explained

Dipeptidase 3 (DPEP3) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the DPEP3 gene.^[1]

This gene encodes a membrane-bound glycoprotein from the family of dipeptidases (EC 3.4.13.19) involved in hydrolytic metabolism of various dipeptides, including penem and carbapenem beta-lactam antibiotics. This gene is located on chromosome 16 in a cluster with another member of this family, DPEP2. Alternatively spliced transcript variants that encode different isoforms have been found for this gene.^[2]

Further reading

• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA . The Status, Quality, and Expansion of the NIH Full-Length cDNA Project: The Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC) . Genome Res. . 14 . 10B . 2121–7 . 2004 . 15489334 . 10.1101/gr.2596504 . 528928 . etal.
• Ota T, Suzuki Y, Nishikawa T . Complete sequencing and characterization of 21,243 full-length human cDNAs . Nat. Genet. . 36 . 1 . 40–5 . 2004 . 14702039 . 10.1038/ng1285 . etal. free .
• Sabatti C, Service SK, Hartikainen AL . Genome-wide association analysis of metabolic traits in a birth cohort from a founder population . Nat. Genet. . 41 . 1 . 35–46 . 2009 . 19060910 . 10.1038/ng.271 . 2687077 . etal.
• Clark HF, Gurney AL, Abaya E . The Secreted Protein Discovery Initiative (SPDI), a Large-Scale Effort to Identify Novel Human Secreted and Transmembrane Proteins: A Bioinformatics Assessment . Genome Res. . 13 . 10 . 2265–70 . 2003 . 12975309 . 10.1101/gr.1293003 . 403697 . etal.
• Kimura K, Wakamatsu A, Suzuki Y . Diversification of transcriptional modulation: Large-scale identification and characterization of putative alternative promoters of human genes . Genome Res. . 16 . 1 . 55–65 . 2006 . 16344560 . 10.1101/gr.4039406 . 1356129 . etal.
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH . Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences . Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. . 99 . 26 . 16899–903 . 2002 . 12477932 . 10.1073/pnas.242603899 . 139241 . 2002PNAS...9916899M . etal. free .

Notes and References

1. Habib GM, Shi ZZ, Cuevas AA, Lieberman MW . Identification of two additional members of the membrane-bound dipeptidase family . The FASEB Journal . 17. 10 . 1313–5 . July 2003 . 12738806 . 10.1096/fj.02-0899fje . free . 15252871 .
2. Web site: Entrez Gene: Dipeptidase 3 .