caspase 5, apoptosis-related cysteine peptidase | |||||||
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Identifiers | |||||||
Symbol | CASP5 | ||||||
Alt. symbols | ICE(rel)III, ICH3 | ||||||
NCBI gene | 838 | ||||||
HGNC | 1506 | ||||||
OMIM | 602665 | ||||||
RefSeq | NM_004347 | ||||||
UniProt | P51878 | ||||||
Other data | |||||||
EC number | 3.4.22.58 | ||||||
Locus | Chr. 11q22.2-q22.3 | ||||||
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Caspase 5 is anenzyme thatproteolytically cleaves other proteins at anaspartic acid residue, and belongs to a family ofcysteine proteases calledcaspases. It is an inflammatory caspase, along withcaspase 1,caspase 4 and themurine caspase 4homologcaspase 11, and has a role in theimmune system.[1]
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