Pancreatic elastase

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elastase 1, pancreatic
Identifiers
Symbol	ELA1
Entrez	1990
HUGO	3308
OMIM	130120
RefSeq	NM_001971
UniProt	Q9UNI1
Other data
EC number	3.4.21.36
Locus	Chr. 12 [1]

Pancreatic elastase is a form of elastase formed in the pancreas.

From recent research, it appears that of the two, ELA-1 is not transcribed into a protein.^[1]

[edit] Clinical significance

Fecal elastase is used as a measure of pancreatic status.

[edit] References

1. ^ Rose S, MacDonald R (1997). "Evolutionary silencing of the human elastase I gene (ELA1)". Hum Mol Genet 6 (6): 897–903. doi:10.1093/hmg/6.6.897. PMID 9175736. 

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• MeSH Pancreatic+Elastase

v • d • e Endopeptidases: serine proteases/serine endopeptidases (EC 3.4.21) Digestive enzymes Enteropeptidase - Trypsin - Chymotrypsin - Elastase (Neutrophil, Pancreatic) Coagulation factors: Thrombin - Factor VIIa - Factor IXa - Factor Xa - Factor XIa - Factor XIIa - Kallikrein (PSA) fibrinolysis: Plasmin - Tissue plasminogen activator - Urinary plasminogen activator Complement system Factor B - Factor D - Factor I - MASP (MASP1, MASP2) - C3-convertase Other immune system Chymase - Granzyme - Tryptase - Proteinase 3/Myeloblastin Venombin Ancrod - Batroxobin Other Acrosin - Prolyl endopeptidase - Pronase - Proprotein convertases (1, 2) - Subtilisin/Furin - Streptokinase - S1P