Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

CELA2B

Chymotrypsin-like elastase family member 2B

Also known as: CEL2B_HUMAN, ELA2B, RP11-265F14.2

Cross-references: UniProt · Ensembl · Human Protein Atlas · GeneCards · NCBI Gene

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
P08218
Gene
CELA2B
Ensembl
ENSG00000215704
Chromosome
1
Canonical length
269 aa
Protein class
Enzymes, Predicted intracellular proteins, Predicted secreted proteins
Secretome location
Secreted to digestive system

OverviewNCBI Gene

Elastases form a subfamily of serine proteases that hydrolyze many proteins in addition to elastin. Humans have six elastase genes which encode the structurally similar proteins elastase 1, 2, 2A, 2B, 3A, and 3B. Like most of the human elastases, elastase 2B is secreted from the pancreas as a zymogen. In other species, elastase 2B has been shown to preferentially cleave proteins after leucine, methionine, and phenylalanine residues. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

269 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>P08218|CELA2B
     1  MIRTLLLSTL VAGALSCGVS TYAPDMSRML GGEEARPNSW PWQVSLQYSS NGQWYHTCGG
    61  SLIANSWVLT AAHCISSSGI YRVMLGQHNL YVAESGSLAV SVSKIVVHKD WNSDQVSKGN
   121  DIALLKLANP VSLTDKIQLA CLPPAGTILP NNYPCYVTGW GRLQTNGALP DDLKQGQLLV
   181  VDYATCSSSG WWGSTVKTNM ICAGGDGVIC TCNGDSGGPL NCQASDGRWE VHGIGSLTSV
   241  LGCNYYYKPS IFTRVSNYND WINSVIANN

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against CELA2B can act on the native protein depends on physical access: surface and secreted proteins are reachable by circulating antibodies, intracellular proteins usually are not.

Antibody reachability
Secreted
Secreted
Yes
Transmembrane segments
0
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.27
Highest tissue expression
19,273 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • pancreas: 19,273 nTPM
  • ovary: 4.9 nTPM
  • heart muscle: 4.2 nTPM
  • duodenum: 3.5 nTPM
  • salivary gland: 3.2 nTPM
  • adrenal gland: 2.8 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • pancreatic acinar cells: 2,209 nCPM
  • epicardial cells: 98 nCPM
  • pancreatic duct cells: 14 nCPM
  • müller glia: 11 nCPM
  • vascular smooth muscle cells: 9 nCPM
  • cardiomyocytes: 8.1 nCPM

Immune cell

  • basophil: 0.9 nTPM
  • neutrophil: 0.4 nTPM
  • gdT-cell: 0.1 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 0 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 0 nTPM

Brain region

  • cerebral cortex: 14 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 11 nTPM
  • thalamus: 7.7 nTPM
  • white matter: 7.6 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 6.4 nTPM
  • hippocampal formation: 6.2 nTPM

Genetic constraint and essentialitygnomAD · DepMap

Does the body need this protein intact? Low LOEUF or a strong DepMap dependency means loss or blockade of the protein is likely to be felt.

gnomAD LOEUF (loss-of-function intolerance)
1.11
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
-0.43
DepMap mean gene effect
0.01
DepMap dependency class
none

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 3% of surveyed tumor types (aggregate summary; per-cohort expression, alteration, and survival load in the interactive view).

OntologyGO

Biological processes

Molecular functions

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads CELA2B as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against CELA2B could matter depends on whether native CELA2B is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

CELA2B is annotated as secreted, so native CELA2B circulates and is directly accessible to antibodies. Secreted and cell-surface proteins are the autoantibody targets most likely to act like drugs, blocking or depleting the native protein.

Annotation status

The present source text does not explicitly label CELA2B as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/CELA2B. Study-independent annotations aggregated from UniProt, Human Protein Atlas, PubMed, IEDB, Pfam, InterPro, Gene Ontology, AlphaFold, gnomAD, DepMap, ClinVar, TCGA. Catalog release seroatlas-reviewed-human-uniprot-20260313.

Seroatlas is the reference for exploring autoantibody and antibody serology at the human-protein level: the autoreactome and human serome, multiplex serology (HuProt, HuScan, VirScan, PhIP-Seq).

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