Caspase family of cysteine proteases has been shown to play a key role in apoptosis. Caspase-1 (ICE,interleukin-1B-converting enzyme) is the mammalian caspase responsible for the proteolytic conversion of the proforms of interleukin-1B and IL-18 into active cytokines. Like other caspases,Caspase-1 itself is synthesized as a pro-enzyme that is cleaved during activation into a large (20 kDa) and small (10 kDa) subunits. The cellular role of caspase-1 appears limited to cytokine activation as they do not have obvious roles in apoptosis.
应用类型
Western blot analysis (0.5-4 ug/ml), immunoprecipitation (4-8 ug/ml) and immunofluorescence (10-20 ug/ml). The immunoaffinity purified antibody recognizes 45 kDa procaspase-1 and the 20 kDa cleaved product.
免疫原
Synthetic peptide surrounding amino acid 132 of human caspase-1