AMY1A

AMY1A
Available structures
PDBHuman UniProt search: PDBe RCSB
Identifiers
Aliases AMY1A, AMY1, amylase, alpha 1A (salivary)
External IDs HomoloGene: 133998 GeneCards: AMY1A
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

276

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Ensembl

ENSG00000237763

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UniProt

P04745

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RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_004038
NM_001008221

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RefSeq (protein)

NP_001008219.1
NP_001008220.1
NP_001008222.1
NP_004029.2

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Location (UCSC) Chr 1: 103.66 – 103.66 Mb n/a
PubMed search [1] n/a
Wikidata
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Alpha-amylase 1 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the AMY1A gene.[2] This gene is found in many organisms, see Alpha-Amylase.

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 salivary gland. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants encoding the same protein.[2]

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