CELA3B

chymotrypsin like elastase 3B

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 3B has little elastolytic activity. Like most of the human elastases, elastase 3B 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 3B preferentially cleaves proteins after alanine residues. Elastase 3B 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, and excretion of this protein in fecal material is frequently used as a measure of pancreatic function in clinical assays. [provided by RefSeq, May 2009]

Known Variants34 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs75540391:22,303,188G/C
rs25509066151:22,303,540T/Cuncertain significance
rs7734739501:22,303,542C/Guncertain significance
rs1502992091:22,303,543G/Auncertain significance
rs1388659281:22,304,909A/Clikely benign
rs7673624141:22,304,910A/Guncertain significance
rs1450358621:22,305,845G/Aupstream gene variant
rs1434429951:22,307,376C/Tbenign
rs14391309461:22,307,401G/Auncertain significance
rs1996525841:22,307,542C/Tuncertain significance
rs3736677411:22,307,571C/Tuncertain significance
rs7641444431:22,307,602T/Cuncertain significance
rs5573019771:22,307,617G/Alikely benign
rs7736452021:22,307,650C/Tlikely benign
rs1498054851:22,310,215C/Tbenign
rs1134974741:22,310,235C/Tbenign
rs1426276871:22,310,687G/Auncertain significance
rs13822334181:22,310,759T/Cuncertain significance
rs2020095041:22,310,789G/Auncertain significance
rs1486899401:22,310,804G/Tuncertain significance
rs351946491:22,312,187A/Gupstream gene variant
rs13997782511:22,313,087A/Cuncertain significance
rs11856855641:22,313,112G/Auncertain significance
rs7486518661:22,313,162G/Auncertain significance
rs12522928511:22,313,171G/Cuncertain significance
rs342625681:22,313,371G/Aupstream gene variant
rs617779661:22,314,566G/C
rs7677343111:22,315,761G/Auncertain significance
rs121320881:22,318,407C/Gdownstream gene variant
rs1401556591:22,321,001A/Gintron variant
rs46550091:22,321,111C/Tintron variant
rs107997281:22,322,512A/C
rs1842739281:22,323,028C/Gintron variant
rs46550111:22,325,061G/Aregulatory region variant

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.