CELA3A

Chymotrypsin-like elastase family, member 3A
Identifiers
Symbols CELA3A ; ELA3; ELA3A
External IDs HomoloGene: 129880 ChEMBL: 2809 GeneCards: CELA3A Gene
EC number 3.4.21.70
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez 10136 242711
Ensembl ENSG00000142789 ENSMUSG00000078520
UniProt P09093 n/a
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_005747 NM_001126318
RefSeq (protein) NP_005738 NP_001119790
Location (UCSC) Chr 1:
22 – 22.01 Mb
Chr 4:
137.4 – 137.41 Mb
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Chymotrypsin-like elastase family member 3A is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the CELA3A gene.[1][2][3]

Function

Elastases form a subfamily of serine proteases that hydrolyze many proteins in addition to elastin. Humans have six elastase genes which encode the structurally similar proteins elastase 1, 2, 2A, 2B, 3A, and 3B. Unlike other elastases, elastase 3A has little elastolytic activity. Like most of the human elastases, elastase 3A is secreted from the pancreas as a zymogen and, like other serine proteases such as trypsin, chymotrypsin and kallikrein, it has a digestive function in the intestine. Elastase 3A preferentially cleaves proteins after alanine residues. Elastase 3A may also function in the intestinal transport and metabolism of cholesterol. Both elastase 3A and elastase 3B have been referred to as protease E and as elastase 1.[3]

References

  1. Tani T, Ohsumi J, Mita K, Takiguchi Y (Feb 1988). "Identification of a novel class of elastase isozyme, human pancreatic elastase III, by cDNA and genomic gene cloning". J Biol Chem 263 (3): 1231–9. PMID 2826474.
  2. Shirasu Y, Takemura K, Yoshida H, Sato Y, Iijima H, Shimada Y, Mikayama T, Ozawa T, Ikeda N, Ishida A; et al. (Dec 1988). "Molecular cloning of complementary DNA encoding one of the human pancreatic protease E isozymes". J Biochem 104 (2): 259–64. PMID 2460440.
  3. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: ELA3A elastase 3A, pancreatic".

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