LongevityMap Gene

Gene details

HGNC symbol: CASP5
Aliases: ICH-3; ICEREL-III; ICE(rel)III
Common name: caspase 5
Description: This gene encodes a member of the cysteine-aspartic acid protease (caspase) family. Sequential activation of caspases plays a central role in the execution-phase of cell apoptosis. Caspases exist as inactive proenzymes which undergo proteolytic processing at conserved aspartic residues to produce two subunits, large and small, that dimerize to form the active enzyme. Overexpression of the active form of this enzyme induces apoptosis in fibroblasts. Max, a central component of the Myc/Max/Mad transcription regulation network important for cell growth, differentiation, and apoptosis, is cleaved by this protein; this process requires Fas-mediated dephosphorylation of Max. The expression of this gene is regulated by interferon-gamma and lipopolysaccharide. Alternatively spliced transcript variants have been identified for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Aug 2010]
Cytogenetic Location: 11q22.3
UCSC Genome Browser: View 11q22.3 on the UCSC genome browser
OMIM: 602665
Ensembl: ENSG00000137757
UniProt/Swiss-Prot: CASP5_HUMAN
Entrez Gene: 838
UniGene: 213327
1000 Genomes: 1000 Genomes

GenAge model organism genes

Significant/Non-significant: 1/0

Longevity Association

Significant

Population

Russian

Study Design

510 subjects were analyzed for the genotype distribution of CASP5 Ala90Thr polymorphism.

Conclusions

Heterozygosity for CASP5 Ala90Thr polymorphism was negatively associated with life expectancy.

Indentifier

rs507879

Reference