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/C—uncertain significance
rs7734739501:22,303,542C/G—uncertain significance
rs1502992091:22,303,543G/A—uncertain significance
rs1388659281:22,304,909A/C—likely benign
rs7673624141:22,304,910A/G—uncertain significance
rs1450358621:22,305,845G/Aupstream gene variant—
rs1434429951:22,307,376C/T—benign
rs14391309461:22,307,401G/A—uncertain significance
rs1996525841:22,307,542C/T—uncertain significance
rs3736677411:22,307,571C/T—uncertain significance
rs7641444431:22,307,602T/C—uncertain significance
rs5573019771:22,307,617G/A—likely benign
rs7736452021:22,307,650C/T—likely benign
rs1498054851:22,310,215C/T—benign
rs1134974741:22,310,235C/T—benign
rs1426276871:22,310,687G/A—uncertain significance
rs13822334181:22,310,759T/C—uncertain significance
rs2020095041:22,310,789G/A—uncertain significance
rs1486899401:22,310,804G/T—uncertain significance
rs351946491:22,312,187A/Gupstream gene variant—
rs13997782511:22,313,087A/C—uncertain significance
rs11856855641:22,313,112G/A—uncertain significance
rs7486518661:22,313,162G/A—uncertain significance
rs12522928511:22,313,171G/C—uncertain significance
rs342625681:22,313,371G/Aupstream gene variant—
rs617779661:22,314,566G/C——
rs7677343111:22,315,761G/A—uncertain 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.