CELA1

chymotrypsin like elastase 1

Summary

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, pancreatic elastase 1 is not expressed in the pancreas. To date, elastase 1 expression has only been detected in skin keratinocytes. Clinical literature that describes human elastase 1 activity in the pancreas or fecal material is actually referring to chymotrypsin-like elastase family, member 3B. [provided by RefSeq, May 2009]

Known Variants23 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs76017477312:51,723,497C/T—uncertain significance
rs20198743412:51,723,512T/C—uncertain significance
rs75628807812:51,723,537C/T—likely benign
rs194645819512:51,723,565T/C—uncertain significance
rs14929726212:51,723,584T/C—uncertain significance
rs76478993612:51,723,614C/T—uncertain significance
rs54363497412:51,726,744C/T——
rs395143912:51,727,596C/A——
rs250102937712:51,733,654G/C—uncertain significance
rs77438892212:51,733,657C/T—likely benign
rs20121780112:51,733,748G/T—uncertain significance
rs19086778912:51,733,784C/T—uncertain significance
rs1786031212:51,735,154C/T—uncertain significance
rs75675965412:51,736,387A/G—uncertain significance
rs74916599812:51,736,410A/G—uncertain significance
rs36873736512:51,736,417C/T—uncertain significance
rs14982202512:51,736,420A/G—uncertain significance
rs14579128812:51,736,468C/T—uncertain significance
rs76155148912:51,736,470C/T—uncertain significance
rs75365058612:51,736,482T/C—uncertain significance
rs122134705912:51,737,541C/T—uncertain significance
rs74972650412:51,737,585G/T—uncertain significance
rs1786028212:51,740,350C/Tdownstream gene variant—

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.