Description
Product Characteristics:
Catalyzes the post-translational methylation of isoprenylated C-terminal cysteine residues.Tissue specificity:Ubiquitously expressed. Expressed at higher levels in the cerebellum and putamen than in other brain regions. Abundant expression seen in the Purkinje cells and pontine neurons.
Subcellular location: Cytoplasm, Cell membrane
Synonyms: HSTE14, Icmt, ICMT_HUMAN, Isoprenylcysteine carboxylmethyltransferase, pcCMT, PCMT, PPMT, Prenylated protein carboxyl methyltransferase, Prenylcysteine carboxyl methyltransferase, Protein-S-isoprenylcysteine O-methyltransferase
Target Information: This gene encodes the third of three enzymes that posttranslationally modify isoprenylated C-terminal cysteine residues in certain proteins and target those proteins to the cell membrane. This enzyme localizes to the endoplasmic reticulum. Alternative splicing may result in other transcript variants, but the biological validity of those transcripts has not been determined. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]