1: HomoloGene:938. Gene conserved in Eutheria Download , Links
Genes
Genes identified as putative homologs of one another during the construction of HomoloGene.

Proteins
Proteins used in sequence comparisons and their conserved domain architectures.

   CASP4,  Homo sapiens
caspase 4, apoptosis-related cysteine peptidase
    NP_001216.1
377 aa
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   CASP4,  Pan troglodytes
caspase 4, apoptosis-related cysteine peptidase
    XP_508729.2
377 aa
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   CASP4,  Canis lupus familiaris
caspase 4, apoptosis-related cysteine peptidase
    NP_001003125.1
404 aa
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   CASP4,  Bos taurus
caspase 4, apoptosis-related cysteine peptidase
    NP_788811.1
377 aa
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   Casp4,  Mus musculus
caspase 4, apoptosis-related cysteine peptidase
    NP_031635.1
373 aa
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   Casp4,  Rattus norvegicus
caspase 4, apoptosis-related cysteine peptidase
    NP_446188.2
373 aa
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Protein Alignments
Protein multiple alignment, pairwise similarity scores and evolutionary distances.

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Phenotypes
Phenotypic information for the genes in this entry imported from model organism databases.


  Mus musculus
 
Homeostasis/metabolism phenotype.
 
Immune system phenotype.



PubMed
Articles associated with genes and sequences of this entry plus additional related articles.

 
Lee JM, et al.
The involvement of caspase-11 in TPEN-induced apoptosis. FEBS Lett 582, 1871-6(2008).
 
Oda T, et al.
Distinct mechanism of cell death is responsible for tunicamycin-induced ER stress in SK-N-SH and SH-SY5Y cells. Neurosci Res 60, 29-39(2008).
 
Oizumi H, et al.
Alteration in the differentiation-related molecular expression in the subventricular zone in a mouse model of Parkinson's disease. Neurosci Res 60, 15-21(2008).
 
Furuya T, et al.
Caspase-11 mediates inflammatory dopaminergic cell death in the 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine mouse model of Parkinson's disease. J Neurosci 24, 1865-72(2004).
 
Kang SJ, et al.
Dissociation between neurodegeneration and caspase-11-mediated activation of caspase-1 and caspase-3 in a mouse model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. J Neurosci 23, 5455-60(2003).
 

 


Conserved Domains
Conserved Domains from CDD found in protein sequences by rpsblast searching.

 
CASc (cl00042)
  Caspase, interleukin-1 beta converting enzyme (ICE) homologues; Cysteine-dependent aspartate-directed proteases that mediate programmed cell death (apoptosis). Caspases are synthesized as inactive zymogens and activated by proteolysis of the peptide...
 
CARD (cl02470)
  Caspase recruitment domain.



Related Homology Resources
Links to curated and computed homology information found in other databases.

 
Orthology group for M.musculus Casp4 includes H.sapiens CASP4 and R.norvegicus Casp4.



UniGene
Links to groups of transcribed sequences established by tblastn searching of UniGene.

 
Caspase 4, apoptosis-related cysteine peptidase
 
Caspase 1, apoptosis-related cysteine peptidase (interleukin 1, beta, conver...
 
Caspase 4, apoptosis-related cysteine peptidase
 
Similar to evolutionarily related interleukin-1beta converting enzyme
 
Caspase-1
 
Caspase 1, apoptosis-related cysteine peptidase (interleukin 1, beta, conver...
 
Caspase 4, apoptosis-related cysteine peptidase
 
Caspase 5, apoptosis-related cysteine peptidase
 
Transcribed locus, strongly similar to NP_001216.1 caspase 4 isoform alpha p...
 
Caspase 4
 
Caspase 1
 
Caspase 4, apoptosis-related cysteine peptidase
 
Caspase 11
 
Transcribed locus, strongly similar to NP_788811.1 caspase 4 [Bos taurus]
 
Transcribed locus, strongly similar to NP_150649.1 caspase 4 isoform gamma p...
 
Caspase 4, apoptosis-related cysteine peptidase
 
Transcribed locus, moderately similar to NP_001216.1 caspase 4 isoform alpha...
 
Caspase 1, apoptosis-related cysteine peptidase (interleukin 1, beta, conver...
 
Transcribed locus, moderately similar to XP_001381571.1 PREDICTED: similar t...