ELAC1 explained

Zinc phosphodiesterase ELAC protein 1 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ELAC1 gene.^[1] ^[2]

Function

The enzyme is a phosphodiesterase.

Further reading

Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA . The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC). . Genome Res. . 14 . 10B . 2121–7 . 2004 . 15489334 . 10.1101/gr.2596504 . 528928 . etal.
Ota T, Suzuki Y, Nishikawa T . Complete sequencing and characterization of 21,243 full-length human cDNAs. . Nat. Genet. . 36 . 1 . 40–5 . 2004 . 14702039 . 10.1038/ng1285 . etal. free .
Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH . Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences. . Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. . 99 . 26 . 16899–903 . 2003 . 12477932 . 10.1073/pnas.242603899 . 139241 . 2002PNAS...9916899M . etal. free .
Yanaihara N, Kohno T, Takakura S . Physical and transcriptional map of a 311-kb segment of chromosome 18q21, a candidate lung tumor suppressor locus. . Genomics . 72 . 2 . 169–79 . 2001 . 11401430 . 10.1006/geno.2000.6454 . etal.
Tavtigian SV, Simard J, Teng DH . A candidate prostate cancer susceptibility gene at chromosome 17p. . Nat. Genet. . 27 . 2 . 172–80 . 2001 . 11175785 . 10.1038/84808 . 7889550 . etal.
Suzuki Y, Yoshitomo-Nakagawa K, Maruyama K . Construction and characterization of a full length-enriched and a 5'-end-enriched cDNA library. . Gene . 200 . 1–2 . 149–56 . 1997 . 9373149 . 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00411-3 . etal.
Maruyama K, Sugano S . Oligo-capping: a simple method to replace the cap structure of eukaryotic mRNAs with oligoribonucleotides . Gene . 138 . 1–2 . 171–4 . 1994 . 8125298 . 10.1016/0378-1119(94)90802-8 .

Notes and References

Takaku H, Minagawa A, Takagi M, Nashimoto M . A candidate prostate cancer susceptibility gene encodes tRNA 3' processing endoribonuclease . Nucleic Acids Res . 31 . 9 . 2272–8 . Apr 2003 . 12711671 . 154223 . 10.1093/nar/gkg337 .
Web site: Entrez Gene: ELAC1 elaC homolog 1 (E. coli).