UniProt functional annotation for P14754

UniProt code: P14754.

Organism: Manduca sexta (Tobacco hawkmoth) (Tobacco hornworm).
Taxonomy: Eukaryota; Metazoa; Ecdysozoa; Arthropoda; Hexapoda; Insecta; Pterygota; Neoptera; Endopterygota; Lepidoptera; Glossata; Ditrysia; Bombycoidea; Sphingidae; Sphinginae; Sphingini; Manduca.
 
Function: Inhibits elastase.
 
Subcellular location: Secreted, extracellular space.
Tissue specificity: Hemolymph.
Developmental stage: Expressed in naive 2 h (precellular blastoderm stage) and 24 h (predorsal closure stage) eggs. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:14728663}.
Induction: By bacterial infection. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:14728663}.
Similarity: Belongs to the serpin family. {ECO:0000305}.

Annotations taken from UniProtKB at the EBI.