Predicted to enable metalloendopeptidase activity. Predicted to be involved in collagen catabolic process and extracellular matrix organization. Predicted to be located in extracellular space. Expressed in dorsal uterine cell. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in several diseases, including artery disease (multiple); autoimmune disease (multiple); and carcinoma (multiple). Is an ortholog of human MMP16 (matrix metallopeptidase 16).
Map position created from combination of previous interpolated map position (based on known location of sequence) and allele information. Therefore this is not a genetic map position based on recombination frequencies or genetic experiments. This was done on advice of the CGC.