AMY2A

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

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.

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". Gene. 60 (1): 57–64. doi:10.1016/0378-1119(87)90213-7. PMID 2450054.
• Gumucio DL, Wiebauer K, Caldwell RM, et al. (1988). "Concerted evolution of human amylase genes". Mol. Cell. Biol. 8 (3): 1197–205. 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.
• 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.