CPA3

Carboxypeptidase A3 (mast cell)
Identifiers
SymbolsCPA3 ; MC-CPA
External IDsOMIM: 114851 MGI: 88479 HomoloGene: 122138 IUPHAR: 1589 ChEMBL: 2645 GeneCards: CPA3 Gene
EC number3.4.17.1
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez135912873
EnsemblENSG00000163751ENSMUSG00000001865
UniProtP15088P15089
RefSeq (mRNA)NM_001870NM_007753
RefSeq (protein)NP_001861NP_031779
Location (UCSC)Chr 3:
148.58 – 148.61 Mb
Chr 3:
20.22 – 20.24 Mb
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Carboxypeptidase A3 (mast cell carboxypeptidase A), also known as CPA3, is an enzyme which in humans is encoded by the CPA3 gene.[1][2]

Function

Altogether, there are 22-23 members of the metallocarboxypeptidase gene family in most mammals. CPA3 is one of 8-9 members of the A/B subfamily that includes the well-studied pancreatic enzymes carboxypeptidase A1 (CPA1), carboxypeptidase A2 (CPA2), and carboxypeptidase B. This subfamily includes 6 carboxypeptidase A-like enzymes, numbered 1-6. The enzyme now called CPA3 was originally named mast cell carboxypeptidase A, and another protein was initially called CPA3 (Huang et al., 1999).[3] A gene nomenclature committee renamed mast cell carboxypeptidase A as CPA3, and the original CPA3 reported by Huang et al. became CPA4 to reflect the order of their discovery.

CPA3 is secreted from mast cells and has a pH optimum in the neutral to basic range. It resembles pancreatic carboxypeptidases A1 in cleaving COOH-terminal aromatic and aliphatic amino acid residues.[1] CPA3 functions together with endopeptidases secreted from mast cells such as chymases and tryptases to degrade proteins and peptides. Upon mast cell activation and degranulation, CPA3, the chymases, and tryptases are released in complexes with heparin proteoglycan.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Entrez Gene: CPA3 carboxypeptidase A3 (mast cell)".
  2. Reynolds DS, Gurley DS, Austen KF (January 1992). "Cloning and characterization of the novel gene for mast cell carboxypeptidase A". J. Clin. Invest. 89 (1): 273–82. doi:10.1172/JCI115571. PMC 442845. PMID 1729276.
  3. Huang H; Reed CP; Zhang JS et al. (1999). "Carboxypeptidase A3 (CPA3): a novel gene highly induced by histone deacetylase inhibitors during differentiation of prostate epithelial cancer cells". Cancer Res. 59 (12): 2981–8. PMID 10383164.

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