| 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.
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