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Carboxypeptidase A1
Introduction
Carboxypeptidase A1 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the CPA1 gene.[1]
Three different forms of human pancreatic procarboxypeptidase A have been isolated. The A1 and A2 forms are monomeric proteins with different biochemical properties. Carboxypeptidase A1 is a monomeric pancreatic exopeptidase. It is involved in zymogen inhibition.[1]
Further reading
Further reading
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- Stewart EA, Craik CS, Hake L, Bowcock AM (1990). “Human carboxypeptidase A identifies a BglII RFLP and maps to 7q31-qter”. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 46 (4): 795–800. PMC 1683655. PMID 1969228.
- Moulard M, Michon T, Kerfelec B, Chapus C (1990). “Further studies on the human pancreatic binary complexes involving procarboxypeptidase A.”. FEBS Lett. 261 (1): 179–83. doi:10.1016/0014-5793(90)80665-6. PMID 2307232.
- Pascual R, Burgos FJ, Salva M, et al. (1989). “Purification and properties of five different forms of human procarboxypeptidases”. Eur. J. Biochem. 179 (3): 609–16. doi:10.1111/j.1432-1033.1989.tb14590.x. PMID 2920728.
- Honey NK, Sakaguchi AY, Lalley PA, et al. (1986). “Assignment of the gene for carboxypeptidase A to human chromosome 7q22—-qter and to mouse chromosome 6”. Hum. Genet. 72 (1): 27–31. doi:10.1007/BF00278813. PMID 3455919.
- Velculescu VE, Zhang L, Vogelstein B, Kinzler KW (1995). “Serial analysis of gene expression”. Science. 270 (5235): 484–7. doi:10.1126/science.270.5235.484. PMID 7570003.
- Laethem RM, Blumenkopf TA, Cory M, et al. (1996). “Expression and characterization of human pancreatic preprocarboxypeptidase A1 and preprocarboxypeptidase A2”. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 332 (1): 8–18. doi:10.1006/abbi.1996.0310. PMID 8806703.
- Bonora E, Bacchelli E, Levy ER, et al. (2002). “Mutation screening and imprinting analysis of four candidate genes for autism in the 7q32 region”. Mol. Psychiatry. 7 (3): 289–301. doi:10.1038/sj.mp.4001004. PMID 11920156.
- Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). “Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences”. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
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- Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). “The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)”. Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMC 528928. PMID 15489334.