Caspase 4
caspase 4, apoptosis-related cysteine peptidase | |||||||
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Identifiers | |||||||
Symbol | CASP4 | ||||||
Alt. symbols | ICE(rel)II, ICH-2, TX | ||||||
NCBI gene | 837 | ||||||
HGNC | 1505 | ||||||
OMIM | 602664 | ||||||
RefSeq | NM_001225 | ||||||
UniProt | P49662 | ||||||
Other data | |||||||
EC number | 3.4.22.57 | ||||||
Locus | Chr. 11 q22.2-q22.3 | ||||||
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Caspase 4 is an enzyme that proteolytically cleaves other proteins at an aspartic acid residue (LEVD-), and belongs to a family of cysteine proteases called caspases. The function of caspase 4 is not fully known, but it is believed to be an inflammatory caspase, along with caspase 1, caspase 5 (and the murine homolog caspase 11), with a role in the immune system.[1]
The anti-inflammatory drug indoprofen is an inhibitor of the activity of the caspase-4 enzyme.[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ Smith C, Soti S, Jones Torey A, Nakagawa A, Xue D, and Yin H (2017). "NSAIDs are Caspase Inhibitors". Cell Chem Biol. 24 (3): 281–292. doi:10.1016/j.chembiol.2017.02.003. PMC 5357154. PMID 28238723.
External links
[edit]- The MEROPS online database for peptidases and their inhibitors: C14.007[permanent dead link]