AMY2A

Pancreatic alpha-amylase is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the AMY2A gene.

AMY2A
Available structures PDB Ortholog search: PDBe RCSB List of PDB id codes 1B2Y, 1BSI, 1CPU, 1HNY, 1KB3, 1KBB, 1KBK, 1KGU, 1KGW, 1KGX, 1U2Y, 1U30, 1U33, 1XCW, 1XCX, 1XD0, 1XD1, 1XGZ, 1XH0, 1XH1, 1XH2, 2CPU, 2QMK, 2QV4, 3BAI, 3BAJ, 3BAK, 3BAW, 3BAX, 3BAY, 3CPU, 3IJ7, 3IJ8, 3IJ9, 3OLD, 3OLE, 3OLG, 3OLI, 4GQQ, 4GQR, 4W93, 4X9Y, 5EMY
Identifiers
Aliases	AMY2A, AMY2, AMY2B, PA, amylase, alpha 2A (pancreatic), amylase alpha 2A (pancreatic), amylase alpha 2A
External IDs	OMIM: 104650 MGI: 88019 HomoloGene: 20179 GeneCards: AMY2A
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 1 (human) Band 1p21.1 Start 103,617,427 bp End 103,625,780 bp
Gene location (Mouse) Chr. Chromosome 3 (mouse) Band 3 F3|3 49.35 cM Start 113,349,359 bp End 113,400,348 bp
RNA expression pattern Bgee Human Mouse (ortholog) Top expressed in body of pancreas islet of Langerhans duodenum nucleus accumbens fundus putamen caudate nucleus right lobe of liver hippocampus proper right coronary artery Top expressed in parotid gland lacrimal gland submandibular gland intercostal muscle left lobe of liver white adipose tissue subcutaneous adipose tissue paraventricular nucleus of hypothalamus dorsomedial hypothalamic nucleus brown adipose tissue More reference expression data BioGPS n/a
Gene ontology Molecular function chloride ion binding calcium ion binding catalytic activity alpha-amylase activity hydrolase activity metal ion binding hydrolase activity, acting on glycosyl bonds cation binding Cellular component extracellular region extracellular exosome extracellular space Biological process carbohydrate catabolic process polysaccharide digestion metabolism carbohydrate metabolic process Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 279 11722 Ensembl ENSG00000243480 ENSMUSG00000074264 UniProt P04746 P00687 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_000699 NM_001110505 NM_007446 RefSeq (protein) NP_000690 NP_001103975 NP_031472 Location (UCSC) Chr 1: 103.62 – 103.63 Mb Chr 3: 113.35 – 113.4 Mb PubMed search
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Amylases are secreted proteins that hydrolyze 1,4-alpha-glucoside bonds in oligosaccharides and polysaccharides, and thus catalyze the first step in digestion of dietary starch and glycogen. The human genome has a cluster of several amylase genes that are expressed at high levels in either salivary gland or pancreas. This gene encodes an amylase isoenzyme produced by the pancreas.

External links

• Human AMY2A genome location and AMY2A gene details page in the UCSC Genome Browser.

See also

• AMY1A

Further reading

• Kaczmarek MJ, Rosenmund H (1977). "The action of human pancreatic and salivary isoamylases on starch and glycogen". Clin. Chim. Acta. 79 (1): 69–73. doi:10.1016/0009-8981(77)90462-4. PMID 890964.
• Jacob M, Lainé J, LeBel D (1993). "Specific interactions of pancreatic amylase at acidic pH. Amylase and the major protein of the zymogen granule membrane (GP-2) bind to immobilized or polymerized amylase". Biochem. Cell Biol. 70 (10–11): 1105–14. doi:10.1139/o92-156. PMID 1284286.
• Groot PC, Mager WH, Henriquez NV, et al. (1991). "Evolution of the human alpha-amylase multigene family through unequal, homologous, and inter- and intrachromosomal crossovers". Genomics. 8 (1): 97–105. doi:10.1016/0888-7543(90)90230-R. PMID 2081604.
• Nishide T, Nakamura Y, Emi M, et al. (1986). "Primary structure of human salivary alpha-amylase gene". Gene. 41 (2–3): 299–304. doi:10.1016/0378-1119(86)90110-1. PMID 2423416.
• Horii A, Emi M, Tomita N, et al. (1988). "Primary structure of human pancreatic alpha-amylase gene: its comparison with human salivary alpha-amylase gene" (PDF). Gene. 60 (1): 57–64. doi:10.1016/0378-1119(87)90213-7. hdl:11094/36665. PMID 2450054. S2CID 85098215.
• Gumucio DL, Wiebauer K, Caldwell RM, et al. (1988). "Concerted evolution of human amylase genes". Mol. Cell. Biol. 8 (3): 1197–205. doi:10.1128/mcb.8.3.1197. PMC 363264. PMID 2452973.
• Samuelson LC, Wiebauer K, Gumucio DL, Meisler MH (1988). "Expression of the human amylase genes: recent origin of a salivary amylase promoter from an actin pseudogene". Nucleic Acids Res. 16 (17): 8261–76. doi:10.1093/nar/16.17.8261. PMC 338557. PMID 2458567.
• Groot PC, Bleeker MJ, Pronk JC, et al. (1989). "The human alpha-amylase multigene family consists of haplotypes with variable numbers of genes". Genomics. 5 (1): 29–42. doi:10.1016/0888-7543(89)90083-9. PMID 2788608.
• Wise RJ, Karn RC, Larsen SH, et al. (1986). "A complementary DNA sequence that predicts a human pancreatic amylase primary structure consistent with the electrophoretic mobility of the common isozyme, Amy2 A". Mol. Biol. Med. 2 (5): 307–22. PMID 6336237.
• Tricoli JV, Shows TB (1984). "Regional assignment of human amylase (AMY) to p22----p21 of chromosome 1". Somat. Cell Mol. Genet. 10 (2): 205–10. doi:10.1007/BF01534909. PMID 6608795. S2CID 21230969.
• Nishide T, Emi M, Nakamura Y, Matsubara K (1984). "Corrected sequences of cDNAs for human salivary and pancreatic alpha-amylases [corrected]". Gene. 28 (2): 263–70. doi:10.1016/0378-1119(84)90265-8. PMID 6610603.
• Maruyama K, Sugano S (1994). "Oligo-capping: a simple method to replace the cap structure of eukaryotic mRNAs with oligoribonucleotides". Gene. 138 (1–2): 171–4. doi:10.1016/0378-1119(94)90802-8. PMID 8125298.
• Qian M, Haser R, Buisson G, et al. (1994). "The active center of a mammalian alpha-amylase. Structure of the complex of a pancreatic alpha-amylase with a carbohydrate inhibitor refined to 2.2-A resolution". Biochemistry. 33 (20): 6284–94. doi:10.1021/bi00186a031. PMID 8193143.
• Brayer GD, Luo Y, Withers SG (1996). "The structure of human pancreatic alpha-amylase at 1.8 A resolution and comparisons with related enzymes". Protein Sci. 4 (9): 1730–42. doi:10.1002/pro.5560040908. PMC 2143216. PMID 8528071.
• Suzuki Y, Yoshitomo-Nakagawa K, Maruyama K, et al. (1997). "Construction and characterization of a full length-enriched and a 5'-end-enriched cDNA library". Gene. 200 (1–2): 149–56. doi:10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00411-3. PMID 9373149.
• Rydberg EH, Sidhu G, Vo HC, et al. (1999). "Cloning, mutagenesis, and structural analysis of human pancreatic alpha-amylase expressed in Pichia pastoris". Protein Sci. 8 (3): 635–43. doi:10.1110/ps.8.3.635. PMC 2144294. PMID 10091666.
• Brayer GD, Sidhu G, Maurus R, et al. (2000). "Subsite mapping of the human pancreatic alpha-amylase active site through structural, kinetic, and mutagenesis techniques". Biochemistry. 39 (16): 4778–91. doi:10.1021/bi9921182. PMID 10769135.
• Aughsteen AA (2001). "A comparative immunohistochemical study on amylase localization in the rat and human exocrine pancreas". Saudi Medical Journal. 22 (5): 410–5. PMID 11376382.
• Numao S, Maurus R, Sidhu G, et al. (2002). "Probing the role of the chloride ion in the mechanism of human pancreatic alpha-amylase". Biochemistry. 41 (1): 215–25. doi:10.1021/bi0115636. PMID 11772019.