| caspase 5, apoptosis-related cysteine peptidase | |||||||
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| Identifiers | |||||||
| Symbol | CASP5 | ||||||
| Alt. symbols | ICE(rel)III, ICH3 | ||||||
| NCBI gene | 838 | ||||||
| HGNC | 1506 | ||||||
| OMIM | 602665 | ||||||
| RefSeq | NM_004347 | ||||||
| UniProt | P51878 | ||||||
| Other data | |||||||
| EC number | 3.4.22.58 | ||||||
| Locus | Chr. 11 q22.2-q22.3 | ||||||
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Caspase 5 is an enzyme that proteolytically cleaves other proteins at an aspartic acid residue, and belongs to a family of cysteine proteases called caspases. It is an inflammatory caspase, along with caspase 1, caspase 4 and the murine caspase 4 homolog caspase 11, and has a role in the immune system.[1]