Cloned (Comment) | Organism |
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Mus musculus |
Localization | Comment | Organism | GeneOntology No. | Textmining |
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nucleus | - |
Mus musculus | 5634 | - |
Organism | UniProt | Comment | Textmining |
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Mus musculus | - |
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Posttranslational Modification | Comment | Organism |
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proteolytic modification | the initial activation of caspase 2 seems to be mediated by dimerization not processing, this generates a partially active enzyme that is further activated by autoprocessing (self cleavage). Additional processing, which is presumably mediated by active effector caspases (caspases 3 and 7) results in the generation of caspase 2 p19 and p12 subunits. Given that caspase 2 can be processed by caspases 3 and 7, and that loss or inhibition of these caspases or their upstream activators (caspase 9 and APAF1) leads to an inhibition of caspase 2 cleavage | Mus musculus |
Synonyms | Comment | Organism |
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caspase 2 | - |
Mus musculus |
Organism | Comment | Expression |
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Mus musculus | downregulated duiring the development of the central nervous system | down |
Mus musculus | highly expressed in neural precursor cells | up |
General Information | Comment | Organism |
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malfunction | Casp2-null animals develop normally, and thymocytes and neurons derived from them seem to undergo similar levels of apoptosis to those from wild-type littermates. Nevertheless, several subtle phenotypes are associated with the Casp2-knockout mice: Casp2-knockout females have a slight increase in the number of oocytes and Casp2/ oocytes show reduced apoptosis in response to treatment with doxorubicin. The neurons derived from Casp2-null mice are resistant to beta-amyloid-mediated death, which suggests a role for caspase 2 in neuronal death. Casp2-deficient mice also show signs of premature ageing, including accumulation of oxidative damage. Mouse embryonic fibroblasts from Casp2-deficient animals show a reduced or delayed apoptotic response to some cytotoxic drugs, have an aberrant DNA damage and cell cycle response and are readily transformed when they are challenged by oncogene expression. | Mus musculus |
physiological function | caspase 2 is thought be a downstream caspase | Mus musculus |