carboxylesterase 7; cauxin; carboxylesterase-like urinary excreted protein homolog (CES7, CES5A)

Function

• role in the detoxification of xenobiotics & in the activation of ester & amide prodrugs (putative)

carboxylic ester + H2O <--> alcohol + carboxylate

Structure

• belongs to the type-B carboxylesterase/lipase family
• N-glycosylated (putative)

Compartment

secreted (putative)

Alternative splicing

named isoforms=3

Notes

was named CES5

More general terms

• secreted protein
• glycoprotein
• carboxylase (carboxylic ester hydrolase)

Database

• UniProt: http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q6NT32.html