| caspase 5, apoptosis-related cysteine peptidase | |
| Width: | 240px |
| Hgncid: | 1506 |
| Symbol: | CASP5 |
| Altsymbols: | ICE(rel)III, ICH3 |
| Entrezgene: | 838 |
| Omim: | 602665 |
| Refseq: | NM_004347 |
| Uniprot: | P51878 |
| Ecnumber: | 3.4.22.58 |
| Chromosome: | 11 |
| Arm: | q |
| Band: | 22.2-q22.3 |
Caspase 5 is an enzyme that proteolytically cleaves other proteins at an aspartic acid residue, and belongs to a family of cysteine proteases called caspases. It is an inflammatory caspase, along with caspase 1, caspase 4 and the murine caspase 4 homolog caspase 11, and has a role in the immune system.[1]