a 786 amino residue type II transmembrane serine protease; it acts through its proteolytic extracellular domain to detach imaginal disc cells from extracellular matrices & it transmits an outside-to-inside signal to its intracellular domain to modify the cytoskeleton & facilitate cell shape changes underlying morphogenesis; amino acid sequence given in first source; GenBank L11451
Source
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1993 Jun 1;90(11):4937-41
