Species Human Entrez 22861 | Human Mouse Ensembl ENSG00000091592 | |
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Aliases NLRP1, CARD7, CIDED, CLR17.1, DEFCAP, DEFCAP-L/S, NAC, NALP1, PP1044, SLEV1, VAMAS1, NLR family, pyrin domain containing 1, NLR family pyrin domain containing 1 External IDs MGI: 3582959 HomoloGene: 19080 GeneCards: NLRP1 | ||
NACHT, LRR and PYD domains-containing protein 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NLRP1 gene.
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Function
This gene encodes a member of the Ced-4 family of apoptosis proteins. Ced-family members contain a caspase recruitment domain (CARD) and are known to be key mediators of programmed cell death. The encoded protein contains a distinct N-terminal pyrin-like motif, which is possibly involved in protein-protein interactions. The NLRP1 protein interacts strongly with caspase 2 and weakly with caspase 9. Overexpression of this gene was demonstrated to induce apoptosis in cells. Multiple alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding distinct isoforms have been found for this gene, but the biological validity of some variants has not been determined.
Interactions
NLRP1 has been shown to interact with caspase 9 and APAF1.