Caspase 5
caspase 5, apoptosis-related cysteine peptidase | |
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Identifiers | |
Symbol | CASP5 |
Alt. symbols | ICE(rel)III, ICH3 |
Entrez | 838 |
HUGO | 1506 |
OMIM | 602665 |
RefSeq | NM_004347 |
UniProt | P51878 |
Other data | |
EC number | 3.4.22.58 |
Locus | Chr. 11 q22.2-q22.3 |
Caspase 5 is an enzyme that proteolytically cleaves other proteins at an aspartic acid residue, and belongs to a family of cysteine proteases called caspases. It is an inflammatory caspase, along with caspase 1, caspase 4 and the murine caspase 4 homolog caspase 11, and has a role in the immune system.[1]
See also
References
- ↑ Martinon F, Tschopp J (2007). "Inflammatory caspases and inflammasomes: master switches of inflammation". Cell Death Differ. 14 (1): 10–22. doi:10.1038/sj.cdd.4402038. PMID 16977329.
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