Activating Compound | Comment | Organism | Structure |
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additional information | procaspase-8 is cleaved to 41 and 43 kDA fragments for activation, overview | Homo sapiens |
Inhibitors | Comment | Organism | Structure |
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N-carbobenzyloxy-IETD-fluoromethyl ketone | a caspase-8-specific inhibitor, that efficiently reduces rhein-induced apoptosis by 77% at 0.01 mM resulting in 17% apoptotic cells | Homo sapiens |
Molecular Weight [Da] | Molecular Weight Maximum [Da] | Comment | Organism |
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41000 | - |
x * 41000 + x * 43000, cleaved caspase-8, SDS-PAGE | Homo sapiens |
43000 | - |
x * 41000 + x * 43000, cleaved caspase-8, SDS-PAGE | Homo sapiens |
Natural Substrates | Organism | Comment (Nat. Sub.) | Natural Products | Comment (Nat. Pro.) | Rev. | Reac. |
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additional information | Homo sapiens | caspases 3, 8 and 9 are essential to rhein-induced apoptosis, inhibitors of caspases 3, 8 and 9 are efficiently blocked by rhein-induced apoptosis in TNF-alpha-treated human aortic smooth muscle cells, overview | ? | - |
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Organism | UniProt | Comment | Textmining |
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Homo sapiens | - |
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Posttranslational Modification | Comment | Organism |
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proteolytic modification | procaspase-8 is cleaved to 41 and 43 kDA fragments, overview | Homo sapiens |
Source Tissue | Comment | Organism | Textmining |
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aortic smooth muscle cell | - |
Homo sapiens | - |
Substrates | Comment Substrates | Organism | Products | Comment (Products) | Rev. | Reac. |
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additional information | caspases 3, 8 and 9 are essential to rhein-induced apoptosis, inhibitors of caspases 3, 8 and 9 are efficiently blocked by rhein-induced apoptosis in TNF-alpha-treated human aortic smooth muscle cells, overview | Homo sapiens | ? | - |
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Subunits | Comment | Organism |
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? | x * 41000 + x * 43000, cleaved caspase-8, SDS-PAGE | Homo sapiens |
Synonyms | Comment | Organism |
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caspase 8 | - |
Homo sapiens |
More | the enzyme belongs to the family of cysteine proteases known as caspases | Homo sapiens |