CASP9

This gene encodes 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 two subunits, large and small, that dimerize to form the active enzyme. This protein can undergo autoproteolytic processing and activation by the apoptosome, a protein complex of cytochrome c and the apoptotic peptidase activating factor 1; this step is thought to be one of the earliest in the caspase activation cascade. This protein is thought to play a central role in apoptosis and to be a tumor suppressor. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, May 2013]

Description

Caspase 9

Tissue specificity

Low tissue specificity

Subcell location

Mitochondria

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

1 (15490832 - 15526534)

Ensembl ID

ENSG00000132906  (ver. 103.38)

Orthologs

Mouse Casp9: ENSMUSG00000028914

UniProt

P55211

neXtProt

NX_P55211

Human splice variants
Mouse splice variants

Protein structure