Description
Product Characteristics:
Serine protease that shows proteolytic activity against a non-specific substrate beta-casein. Promotes or induces cell death either by direct binding to and inhibition of BIRC proteins(also called inhibitor of apoptosis proteins, IAPs), leading to an increase in caspase activity, or by a BIRC inhibition-independent, caspase-independent and serine protease activity-dependent mechanism. Isoform 2 seems to be proteolytically inactive. [CATALYTIC ACTIVITY] Cleavage of non-polar aliphatic amino-acids at the P1 position, with a preference for Val, Ile and Met. At the P2 and P3 positions, Arg is selected most strongly with a secondary preference for other hydrophilic residues. [SUBUNIT] Homotrimer. Interacts with MXI2. The mature protein, but not the precursor, binds to BIRC2, BIRC3 and XIAP.
Subcellular location: Cytoplasm, Cell membrane
Synonyms: High temperature requirement protein a2, HTRA 2, HtrA like serine protease, HtrA serine peptidase 2, Omi stress regulated endoprotease, PARK 13, PARK13, Protease serine 25, PRSS 25, PRSS25, Serine protease 25, Serine protease HTRA2 mitochondrial, HtrA2, HTRA2_HUMAN, mitochondrial, Omi stress-regulated endoprotease, Serine protease HTRA2, Serine proteinase OMI, Serine protease htra2 mitochondrial precursor, Serine protease omi.
Target Information: This gene encodes a serine protease. The protein has been localized in the endoplasmic reticulum and interacts with an alternatively spliced form of mitogen-activated protein kinase 14. The protein has also been localized to the mitochondria with release to the cytosol following apoptotic stimulus. The protein is thought to induce apoptosis by binding the apoptosis inhibitory protein baculoviral IAP repeat-containing 4. Nuclear localization of this protein has also been observed. Alternate splicing of this gene results in two transcript variants encoding different isoforms. Additional transcript variants have been described, but their full-length sequences have not been determined. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]