elastase-3B; protease E (ELA3B, CELA3B)

Function

• efficient protease with alanine specificity but only little elastolytic activity
• preferential cleavage: Ala-|-Xaa
• does not hydrolyze elastin

Structure

• belongs to the peptidase S1 family, elastase subfamily
• contains 1 peptidase S1 domain

More general terms

• serine protease elastase
• glycoprotein

Database

• UniProt: http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/P08861.html
• Entrez gene: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=gene&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Graphics&list_uids=23436