Caspase-2 (EC 3.4.22.55, ICH-1, NEDD-2, caspase-2L, caspase-2S, neural precursor cell expressed developmentally down-regulated protein 2, CASP-2, NEDD2 protein) is an enzyme.[1][2][3][4][5][6] This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction
| Caspase-2 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Identifiers | |||||||||
| EC no. | 3.4.22.55 | ||||||||
| CAS no. | 182372-14-1 | ||||||||
| Databases | |||||||||
| IntEnz | IntEnz view | ||||||||
| BRENDA | BRENDA entry | ||||||||
| ExPASy | NiceZyme view | ||||||||
| KEGG | KEGG entry | ||||||||
| MetaCyc | metabolic pathway | ||||||||
| PRIAM | profile | ||||||||
| PDB structures | RCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum | ||||||||
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- Strict requirement for an Asp residue at P1, with Asp316 being essential for proteolytic activity and has a preferred cleavage sequence of Val-Asp-Val-Ala-Asp-
Caspase-2 is an initiator caspase, as are caspase-8 (EC 3.4.22.61), caspase-9 (EC 3.4.22.62) and caspase-10 (EC 3.4.22.63).
References edit
- ^ Kumar S, Kinoshita M, Noda M, Copeland NG, Jenkins NA (July 1994). "Induction of apoptosis by the mouse Nedd2 gene, which encodes a protein similar to the product of the Caenorhabditis elegans cell death gene ced-3 and the mammalian IL-1 beta-converting enzyme". Genes & Development. 8 (14): 1613–26. doi:10.1101/gad.8.14.1613. PMID 7958843.
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- ^ Li H, Bergeron L, Cryns V, Pasternack MS, Zhu H, Shi L, Greenberg A, Yuan J (August 1997). "Activation of caspase-2 in apoptosis". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 272 (34): 21010–7. doi:10.1074/jbc.272.34.21010. PMID 9261102.
- ^ Mancini M, Machamer CE, Roy S, Nicholson DW, Thornberry NA, Casciola-Rosen LA, Rosen A (May 2000). "Caspase-2 is localized at the Golgi complex and cleaves golgin-160 during apoptosis". The Journal of Cell Biology. 149 (3): 603–12. doi:10.1083/jcb.149.3.603. PMC 2174848. PMID 10791974.
- ^ Zhivotovsky B, Orrenius S (June 2005). "Caspase-2 function in response to DNA damage". Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 331 (3): 859–67. doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.03.191. PMID 15865942.
- ^ Chang HY, Yang X (December 2000). "Proteases for cell suicide: functions and regulation of caspases". Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews. 64 (4): 821–46. doi:10.1128/mmbr.64.4.821-846.2000. PMC 99015. PMID 11104820.
External links edit
- Caspase-2 at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
