ELANE

Elastases form a subfamily of serine proteases that hydrolyze many proteins in addition to elastin. Humans have six elastase genes which encode structurally similar proteins. The encoded preproprotein is proteolytically processed to generate the active protease. Following activation, this protease hydrolyzes proteins within specialized neutrophil lysosomes, called azurophil granules, as well as proteins of the extracellular matrix. The enzyme may play a role in degenerative and inflammatory diseases through proteolysis of collagen-IV and elastin. This protein also degrades the outer membrane protein A (OmpA) of E. coli as well as the virulence factors of such bacteria as Shigella, Salmonella and Yersinia. Mutations in this gene are associated with cyclic neutropenia and severe congenital neutropenia (SCN). This gene is present in a gene cluster on chromosome 19. [provided by RefSeq, Jan 2016]

Description

Elastase, neutrophil expressed

Tissue specificity

Tissue enriched (bone marrow)

Predicted location

Secreted to blood

Protein family

Cancer-related genes
Disease related genes
Enzymes
FDA approved drug targets
Human disease related genes
Mapped to neXtProt
Mapped to UniProt SWISS-PROT
Plasma proteins
Predicted secreted proteins
Protein evidence (Ezkurdia et al 2014)
Protein evidence (Kim et al 2014)

Chromosome

19 (851014 - 856247)

Ensembl ID

ENSG00000197561  (ver. 103.38)

Orthologs

Mouse Elane: ENSMUSG00000020125

UniProt

P08246

neXtProt

NX_P08246

Human splice variants
Mouse splice variants

Protein structure