ID PA24A_XENTR Reviewed; 749 AA. AC B1WAZ6; DT 22-JUL-2008, integrated into UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot. DT 20-MAY-2008, sequence version 1. DT 16-JUN-2009, entry version 8. DE RecName: Full=Cytosolic phospholipase A2; DE Short=cPLA2; DE AltName: Full=Phospholipase A2 group IVA; DE Includes: DE RecName: Full=Phospholipase A2; DE EC=3.1.1.4; DE AltName: Full=Phosphatidylcholine 2-acylhydrolase; DE Includes: DE RecName: Full=Lysophospholipase; DE EC=3.1.1.5; GN Name=pla2g4a; Synonyms=cpla2, pla2g4; OS Xenopus tropicalis (Western clawed frog) (Silurana tropicalis). OC Eukaryota; Metazoa; Chordata; Craniata; Vertebrata; Euteleostomi; OC Amphibia; Batrachia; Anura; Mesobatrachia; Pipoidea; Pipidae; OC Xenopodinae; Xenopus; Silurana. OX NCBI_TaxID=8364; RN [1] RP NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [LARGE SCALE MRNA]. RC STRAIN=N6; TISSUE=Intestine; RG NIH - Xenopus Gene Collection (XGC) project; RL Submitted (APR-2008) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases. CC -!- FUNCTION: Selectively hydrolyzes arachidonyl phospholipids in the CC sn-2 position releasing arachidonic acid. Together with its CC lysophospholipid activity, it is implicated in the initiation of CC the inflammatory response (By similarity). CC -!- CATALYTIC ACTIVITY: Phosphatidylcholine + H(2)O = 1- CC acylglycerophosphocholine + a carboxylate. CC -!- CATALYTIC ACTIVITY: 2-lysophosphatidylcholine + H(2)O = CC glycerophosphocholine + a carboxylate. CC -!- ENZYME REGULATION: Stimulated by agonists such as ATP, EGF, CC thrombin and bradykinin as well as by cytosolic Ca(2+) (By CC similarity). CC -!- SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: Cytoplasm (By similarity). Cytoplasmic CC vesicle (By similarity). Note=Translocates to membrane vesicles in CC a calcium-dependent fashion (By similarity). CC -!- DOMAIN: The N-terminal C2 domain, by its association with lipid CC membranes, mediates the regulation of CPLA2 by presenting the CC active site to its substrate in response to elevations of CC cytosolic Ca(2+) (By similarity). CC -!- SIMILARITY: Contains 1 C2 domain. CC -!- SIMILARITY: Contains 1 PLA2c domain. CC ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CC Copyrighted by the UniProt Consortium, see http://www.uniprot.org/terms CC Distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs License CC ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DR EMBL; BC161557; AAI61557.1; -; mRNA. DR RefSeq; NP_001120577.1; -. DR UniGene; Str.52630; -. DR GeneID; 100145731; -. DR KEGG; xtr:100145731; -. DR GO; GO:0031410; C:cytoplasmic vesicle; IEA:UniProtKB-SubCell. DR GO; GO:0005509; F:calcium ion binding; IEA:UniProtKB-KW. DR GO; GO:0004622; F:lysophospholipase activity; IEA:EC. DR GO; GO:0004623; F:phospholipase A2 activity; IEA:EC. DR GO; GO:0009395; P:phospholipid catabolic process; IEA:InterPro. DR InterPro; IPR000008; C2_Ca-dep. DR InterPro; IPR018029; C2_membr_targeting. DR InterPro; IPR002642; PLA2_B. DR Pfam; PF00168; C2; 1. DR Pfam; PF01735; PLA2_B; 1. DR SMART; SM00239; C2; 1. DR SMART; SM00022; PLAc; 1. DR PROSITE; PS50004; C2; 1. DR PROSITE; PS51210; PLA2C; 1. PE 2: Evidence at transcript level; KW Calcium; Cytoplasm; Cytoplasmic vesicle; Hydrolase; Lipid degradation. FT CHAIN 1 749 Cytosolic phospholipase A2. FT /FTId=PRO_0000345137. FT DOMAIN 5 106 C2. FT DOMAIN 138 740 PLA2c. FT REGION 1 178 Phospholipid binding (Probable). SQ SEQUENCE 749 AA; 85413 MW; 18EC0E15ED902CAE CRC64; MASIDPYQHI IVEHQYSHRF TVTVIKATNV TKGTFGDMLD TPDPYVELYI SSAPDSRKRT KHFNNNINPV WNETFEFILD PNQDNVLEIT LMDANYVMDE SLGTTTFPIS SVKPGEKKQV PFTFNKVTEM ILEFLLEVCS STDLRFSMAL CDQEKFFRQK RKNQVINGLR KLLGPEKTKD LNPTSRDVPV IAVLGSGGGF RAMIGFSGVM KALFESGVLD CVTYIAGLSG STWYMSALYS HADFPNKGPK EINKELMNNV SHNPLLLLTP QKVKRYIEAL WKKKSSGQPV TFTDIFAMLI GETLIKDRMN RKLSHMQEKI SHGQCPLPLF TCLHVKPDVS ELMFADWVEF SPYEIGMAKY GTFMPPDHFG SKFFMGTVIK KYEENPLHFL MGVWGSAFSI LINRVLGVST NNQGSTMEEE IENLKPKHIL GNDSSDSDDE MQEPKGTENS KAEEEYQRNN QASWVQRMLM ALLGDSALFN TREGRAGKVH NFMLGLNLNT SYPYSPLSGL CTQQSMEEDE FDAAVADPDE FEQIYEPLDV KSKKIHIVDS GLTFNLPYPL ILRPQRGVDL IISFDFSARP SDSSPPFKEL LLAEKWARMN KLPFPKIDPH VFDREGLKEC YIFKPKNPSV EKDCPTVIHF VLANLQFRNF KAPGVPRETA EEKEFADFDI FDDPETPFST FNFQYPNEAF KRLHDLMEFN TLNNINVIKQ AMVESIEYRK QHPSRCSVSL NDVEARKLLH KDSQSKFQM //