Description
Product Characteristics:
Caspase-6 is involved in the activation cascade of caspases responsible for apoptosis execution. Cleaves poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase in vitro, as well as lamins. Overexpression promotes programmed cell death. Subunit is compose of heterodimer of a18 kDa (p18) and a 11 kDa (p11) subunit. Subcellular location at cytoplasmic. Cleavages by CPP32, caspase-8 or -10 generate the two active subunits. It belongs to the peptidase C14 family.
Subcellular location: Cytoplasm, Nucleus
Synonyms: Apoptosis-related cysteine protein, Apoptosis Related Cysteine Protease, Apoptotic cysteine protease MCH2, Apoptotic protease MCH 2, Apoptotic protease MCH2, Casp 6, Casp6, Caspase 6 apoptosis related cysteine protease, Caspase 6 precursor, Caspase6, Human cysteine protease Mch2 isoform alpha, Mch 2, Mch2, CASP6_HUMAN.
Target Information: This gene encodes a protein which 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 which undergo proteolytic processing at conserved aspartic residues to produce two subunits, large and small, that dimerize to form the active enzyme. This protein is processed by caspases 7, 8 and 10, and is thought to function as a downstream enzyme in the caspase activation cascade. Alternative splicing of this gene results in two transcript variants that encode different isoforms. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]