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In molecular biology the latexin family is a family of proteins which family consists of several animal specific latexin and proteins related to latexin that belong to MEROPS proteinase inhibitor family I47 clan IH.Latexin a protein possessing inhibitory activity against rat carboxypeptidase A1 (CPA1) and CPA2 (MEROPS peptidase family M14A) is expressed in a neuronal subset in the cerebral cortex and cells in other neural and non-neural tissues of rat.