UniprotKB/SwissProt ID: Q9VB68 (Q9VB68)
Gene Name:
grass
Organism: Drosophila melanogaster (Fruit fly)
Function: Endopeptidase (By similarity). Plays a key role in innate immunity by activating the Toll pathway in response to fungal and Gram-positive bacterial infections, presumably downstream of pattern-recognition receptors (PRR), such as PGRP-SA, GNBP1 and GNBP3, and upstream of spz processing enzyme SPE (PubMed:16631589, PubMed:18724373)
Other Modifications: View all modification sites in dbPTM
Protein Subcellular Localization: Secreted
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