CELA2B

Protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Chymotrypsin-like elastase family member 2B is and enzyme that in humans is encoded by the CELA2B gene.[3][4][5]

AliasesCELA2B, ELA2B, chymotrypsin like elastase family member 2B, chymotrypsin like elastase 2B
End15,491,395 bp[1]
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CELA2B
Identifiers
AliasesCELA2B, ELA2B, chymotrypsin like elastase family member 2B, chymotrypsin like elastase 2B
External IDsOMIM: 609444; HomoloGene: 88835; GeneCards: CELA2B; OMA:CELA2B - orthologs
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
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RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_015849

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RefSeq (protein)

NP_056933

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Location (UCSC)Chr 1: 15.47 – 15.49 Mbn/a
PubMed search[2]n/a
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Function

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. Like most of the human elastases, elastase 2B is secreted from the pancreas as a zymogen. In other species, elastase 2B has been shown to preferentially cleave proteins after leucine, methionine, and phenylalanine residues.[5]

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