CASP1

This gene encodes a protein which is a member of the cysteine-aspartic acid protease (caspase) family. Sequential activation of caspases plays a central role in the execution-phase of cell apoptosis. Caspases exist as inactive proenzymes which undergo proteolytic processing at conserved aspartic residues to produce 2 subunits, large and small, that dimerize to form the active enzyme. This gene was identified by its ability to proteolytically cleave and activate the inactive precursor of interleukin-1, a cytokine involved in the processes such as inflammation, septic shock, and wound healing. This gene has been shown to induce cell apoptosis and may function in various developmental stages. Studies of a similar gene in mouse suggest a role in the pathogenesis of Huntington disease. Alternative splicing results in transcript variants encoding distinct isoforms. [provided by RefSeq, Mar 2012]

Description

Caspase 1

Tissue specificity

Tissue enhanced (intestine, lymphoid tissue)

Subcell location

Nucleoplasm, Cytosol

Predicted location

Intracellular

Protein family

Cancer-related genes
Enzymes
Mapped to neXtProt
Mapped to UniProt SWISS-PROT
Predicted intracellular proteins
Protein evidence (Ezkurdia et al 2014)
Protein evidence (Kim et al 2014)

Chromosome

11 (105025443 - 105035250)

Ensembl ID

ENSG00000137752  (ver. 103.38)

Orthologs

Mouse Casp1: ENSMUSG00000025888

UniProt

P29466

neXtProt

NX_P29466

Human splice variants
Mouse splice variants

Protein structure