Caspase 10

Caspase-10 is an enzyme that, in humans, is encoded by the CASP10 gene.

CASP10
Identifiers
AliasesCASP10, ALPS2, FLICE2, MCH4, Caspase 10, FLICE-2
External IDsOMIM: 601762 HomoloGene: 50038 GeneCards: CASP10
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez

843

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Ensembl

ENSG00000003400

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UniProt

Q92851

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RefSeq (mRNA)

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RefSeq (protein)

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Location (UCSC)Chr 2: 201.18 – 201.23 Mbn/a
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This gene encodes a protein that 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 that undergo proteolytic processing at conserved aspartic residues to produce two subunits, large and small, that dimerize to form the active enzyme.

That protein cleaves and activates caspases 3 and 7, and the protein itself is processed by caspase 8. Mutations in this gene are associated with apoptosis defects seen in type II autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome. Three alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been described for this gene.

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