Enables serine-type endopeptidase activity. Involved in pexophagy; protein catabolic process in the vacuole; and sporulation resulting in formation of a cellular spore. Predicted to be located in fungal-type vacuole lumen. Predicted to be active in extracellular space. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in familial hypercholesterolemia and hypobetalipoproteinemia. Orthologous to human PCSK9 (proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9).
SGD Description
Vacuolar proteinase B yscB with H3 N-terminal endopeptidase activity; serine protease of subtilisin family; involved in protein degradation in vacuole; required for full protein degradation during sporulation; activity inhibited by Pbi2p; protein abundance increases in response to DNA replication stress; targeted to vacuole via Vps10p-dependent endosomal vacuolar protein sorting pathway and via AP-3 pathway; PRB1 has a paralog, YSP3, that arose from the whole genome duplication