UniProtSummary | FUNCTION:SwissProt:P29466#ThiolproteasethatcleavesIL-1betabetweenanAspandanAla,releasingthematurecytokinewhichisinvolvedinavarietyofinflammatoryprocesses.Importantfordefenseagainstpathogens.Cleavesandactivatessterolregulatoryelementbindingproteins(SREBPs).Canalsopromoteapoptosis. SIZE:404aminoacids;45159Da SUBUNIT:Heterotetramerthatconsistsoftwoanti-parallelarrangedheterodimers,eachoneformedbya20kDa(p20)anda10kDa(p10)subunit.Thep20subunitcanalsoformaheterodimerwiththeepsilonisoformwhichthenhasaninhibitoryeffect.Maybeacomponentoftheinflammasome,aproteincomplexwhichalsoincludesPYCARD,CARD8andNALP2andwhosefunctionwouldbetheactivationofproinflammatorycaspases. SUBCELLULARLOCATION:Cytoplasm. TISSUESPECIFICITY:Expressedinlargeramountsinspleenandlung.Detectedinliver,heart,smallintestine,colon,thymus,prostate,skeletalmuscle,peripheralbloodleukocytes,kidneyandtestis.Noexpressioninthebrain. PTM:Thetwosubunitsarederivedfromtheprecursorsequencebyanautocatalyticmechanism. SIMILARITY:SwissProt:P29466##BelongstothepeptidaseC14family.&Contains1CARDdomain. |