======= CASP12 =======
== Gene Information ==
* **Official Symbol**: CASP12
* **Official Name**: caspase 12 (gene/pseudogene)
* **Aliases and Previous Symbols**: N/A
* **Entrez ID**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/?term=100506742|100506742]]
* **UniProt**: [[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q6UXS9|Q6UXS9]]
* **Interactions**: [[https://thebiogrid.org/search.php?search=CASP12&organism=9606|BioGRID]]
* **PubMed articles**: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=gene%20CASP12|Open PubMed]]
* **OMIM**: [[https://omim.org/entry/608633|Open OMIM]]
== Function Summary ==
* **Entrez Summary**: Caspases are cysteine proteases that cleave C-terminal aspartic acid residues on their substrate molecules. This gene is most highly related to members of the ICE subfamily of caspases that process inflammatory cytokines. In rodents, the homolog of this gene mediates apoptosis in response to endoplasmic reticulum stress. However, in humans this gene contains a polymorphism for the presence or absence of a premature stop codon. The majority of human individuals have the premature stop codon and produce a truncated non-functional protein. The read-through codon occurs primarily in individuals of African descent and carriers have endotoxin hypo-responsiveness and an increased susceptibility to severe sepsis. Several alternatively spliced transcript variants have been noted for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Feb 2011].
* **UniProt Summary**: Has no protease activity. May reduce cytokine release in response to bacterial lipopolysaccharide during infections. Reduces activation of NF-kappa-B in response to TNF. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12054529, ECO:0000269|PubMed:15129283}.
|Peptidase C14|
|CARD|
|cysteine-type endopeptidase activity involved in apoptotic signaling pathway|
|cysteine-type endopeptidase activity involved in apoptotic process|
|execution phase of apoptosis|
|activation of cysteine-type endopeptidase activity involved in apoptotic process|
|cysteine-type endopeptidase activity|
|positive regulation of cysteine-type endopeptidase activity involved in apoptotic process|
|positive regulation of cysteine-type endopeptidase activity|
|positive regulation of endopeptidase activity|
|positive regulation of peptidase activity|
|regulation of cysteine-type endopeptidase activity involved in apoptotic process|
|regulation of cysteine-type endopeptidase activity|
|apoptotic signaling pathway|
|positive regulation of proteolysis|
|regulation of endopeptidase activity|
|regulation of peptidase activity|
|positive regulation of apoptotic process|
|positive regulation of programmed cell death|
|positive regulation of cell death|
|regulation of proteolysis|
|positive regulation of hydrolase activity|
|apoptotic process|
|endoplasmic reticulum|
|programmed cell death|
|cell death|
|proteolysis|
|regulation of hydrolase activity|
|positive regulation of catalytic activity|
|regulation of apoptotic process|
|regulation of programmed cell death|
|positive regulation of cellular protein metabolic process|
|regulation of cell death|
|positive regulation of protein metabolic process|
|positive regulation of molecular function|
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=== CRISPR Data ===
No hits were found.
No correlation found to any other genes in chemogenomics.
Global Fraction of Cell Lines Where Essential: N/A
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== Essentiality in NALM6 ==
* **Essentiality Rank**: 7191
* **Expression level (log2 read counts)**: -7.68
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