CELA3A

chymotrypsin like elastase 3A

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, 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. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Known Variants29 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs1433049981:22,328,177C/Tuncertain significance
rs75336771:22,329,417T/C
rs5451486201:22,329,534C/Tuncertain significance
rs559143071:22,331,247G/C
rs3761511161:22,332,158G/Clikely benign
rs3774201721:22,332,159G/Tuncertain significance
rs3708672711:22,332,160A/Cuncertain significance
rs25509126121:22,332,218G/Cuncertain significance
rs7803895101:22,332,222G/Tuncertain significance
rs740622351:22,333,237G/A
rs14701266121:22,333,381G/Auncertain significance
rs1135207351:22,333,447G/Auncertain significance
rs2006746331:22,333,472C/Tuncertain significance
rs1381475641:22,333,884A/Cuncertain significance
rs12482369301:22,333,885C/Guncertain significance
rs3741937461:22,333,902G/Auncertain significance
rs7794969381:22,333,913G/Auncertain significance
rs7746201211:22,333,955A/Tlikely benign
rs1498075891:22,333,994C/Tuncertain significance
rs8677655761:22,333,998C/Tuncertain significance
rs115897641:22,334,381C/Aupstream gene variant
rs66967891:22,334,415T/Cupstream gene variant
rs13258204341:22,336,292T/Cuncertain significance
rs7816742131:22,336,294A/Clikely benign
rs5726096991:22,336,295T/Guncertain significance
rs7735183101:22,336,297T/Alikely benign
rs7550562381:22,336,333A/Guncertain significance
rs1440746741:22,336,335C/Guncertain significance
rs109171111:22,337,271A/Tcoding sequence variant

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.