ELA3A Products

Description

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.

Bioinformatics

Entrez	10136 Human
Uniprot	P09093 Human NM_005747 Human AAH07028 Human
Product By Gene ID	10136
Alternate Names	elastase 3A, pancreatic (protease E) EC 3.4.21 ELA3A Elastase-3A Protease E EC 3.4.21.70 Elastase IIIA elastase-3A elastase 3A, pancreatic ELA3elastase 1 chymotrypsin-like elastase family member 3A chymotrypsin-like elastase family, member 3A

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