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Caspase 3

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Target id: 1619

Nomenclature: Caspase 3

Family: C14: Caspase

Contents:

Gene and Protein Information Click here for help
Species TM AA Chromosomal Location Gene Symbol Gene Name Reference
Human - 277 4q35.1 CASP3 caspase 3
Mouse - 277 8 26.39 cM Casp3 caspase 3
Rat - 277 16q11 Casp3 caspase 3
Previous and Unofficial Names Click here for help
apopain | cysteine protease CPP32 | SCA-1 | SREBP cleavage activity 1 | Caspase 3 apoptosis related cysteine protease (ICE-like cysteine protease) | IRP | Lice | AC-3 | CC3 | mldy | CPP32 | Yama | caspase 3, apoptosis-related cysteine peptidase
Database Links Click here for help
Specialist databases
MEROPS C14.003 (Hs)
Other databases
Alphafold P42574 (Hs), P70677 (Mm), P55213 (Rn)
BRENDA 3.4.22.56
ChEMBL Target CHEMBL2334 (Hs), CHEMBL5632 (Mm), CHEMBL1075185 (Rn)
Ensembl Gene ENSG00000164305 (Hs), ENSMUSG00000031628 (Mm), ENSRNOG00000010475 (Rn)
Entrez Gene 836 (Hs), 12367 (Mm), 25402 (Rn)
Human Protein Atlas ENSG00000164305 (Hs)
KEGG Enzyme 3.4.22.56
KEGG Gene hsa:836 (Hs), mmu:12367 (Mm), rno:25402 (Rn)
OMIM 600636 (Hs)
Pharos P42574 (Hs)
RefSeq Nucleotide NM_004346 (Hs), NM_032991 (Hs), NM_009810 (Mm), NM_012922 (Rn)
RefSeq Protein NP_004337 (Hs), NP_116786 (Hs), NP_033940 (Mm), NP_037054 (Rn)
UniProtKB P42574 (Hs), P70677 (Mm), P55213 (Rn)
Wikipedia CASP3 (Hs)
Enzyme Reaction Click here for help
EC Number: 3.4.22.56
Substrates and Reaction Kinetics Click here for help
Substrate Sp. Property Value Units Standard property Standard value Assay description Assay conditions Comments Reference
huntingtin Substrate is endogenous in the given species Hs - -
retinoblastoma-associated protein Substrate is endogenous in the given species Hs - -
caspase 3 Substrate is endogenous in the given species Hs - -
ICAD Substrate is endogenous in the given species Hs - -
PARP Substrate is endogenous in the given species Hs - -
PKCδ Substrate is endogenous in the given species Hs - -
pro-caspase 7 Substrate is endogenous in the given species Hs - -
Endogenous activators (Human)
Caspase 8, caspase 9, caspase 10, GrB

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Activators
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Ligand Sp. Action Value Parameter Reference
PAC1 Small molecule or natural product Hs Activation - - 8
⤷ [8]
PETCM Small molecule or natural product Hs Activation - - 5
⤷ [5]
Inhibitors
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Ligand Sp. Action Value Parameter Reference
M826 Small molecule or natural product Primary target of this compound Click here for species-specific activity table Hs Inhibition 8.3 pKi 3
⤷ pKi 8.3 (Ki 5x10-9 M) [3]
compound 4 [PMID: 12408711] Small molecule or natural product Primary target of this compound Click here for species-specific activity table Hs Inhibition 7.3 pKi 2
⤷ pKi 7.3 (Ki 5x10-8 M) [2]
AZ10417808 Small molecule or natural product Hs Inhibition 6.6 pKi 9
⤷ pKi 6.6 (Ki 2.47x10-7 M) [9]
Ac-DEVD-CHO Small molecule or natural product Hs Inhibition 9.8 pIC50 6
⤷ pIC50 9.8 (IC50 1.6x10-10 M) [6]
Z-DEVD-FMK Peptide Hs Inhibition - - 1
⤷ [1]
Z-DQMD-FMK Peptide Hs Inhibition - - 4
⤷ [4]
Immunopharmacology Comments
Defective caspase 3 expression in immune effector cells may influence susceptibility to Kawasaki disease, an acute vasculitis syndrome affecting small- and medium-sized arteries of infants and children [7].
Immuno Disease Associations
Disease Name:  Kawasaki disease
Disease Synonyms:  no synonyms
Comment:  Caspase 3 mutations confer susceptibility to KD.
Disease X-refs:  OMIM: 611775
References:  7

References

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1. Brockstedt E, Rickers A, Kostka S, Laubersheimer A, Dörken B, Wittmann-Liebold B, Bommert K, Otto A. (1998) Identification of apoptosis-associated proteins in a human Burkitt lymphoma cell line. Cleavage of heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein A1 by caspase 3. J Biol Chem, 273 (43): 28057-64. [PMID:9774422]

2. Choong IC, Lew W, Lee D, Pham P, Burdett MT, Lam JW, Wiesmann C, Luong TN, Fahr B, DeLano WL et al.. (2002) Identification of potent and selective small-molecule inhibitors of caspase-3 through the use of extended tethering and structure-based drug design. J Med Chem, 45 (23): 5005-22. [PMID:12408711]

3. Han Y, Giroux A, Colucci J, Bayly CI, Mckay DJ, Roy S, Xanthoudakis S, Vaillancourt J, Rasper DM, Tam J et al.. (2005) Novel pyrazinone mono-amides as potent and reversible caspase-3 inhibitors. Bioorg Med Chem Lett, 15 (4): 1173-80. [PMID:15686936]

4. Izban KF, Ergin M, Huang Q, Qin JZ, Martinez RL, Schnitzer B, Ni H, Nickoloff BJ, Alkan S. (2001) Characterization of NF-kappaB expression in Hodgkin's disease: inhibition of constitutively expressed NF-kappaB results in spontaneous caspase-independent apoptosis in Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg cells. Mod Pathol, 14 (4): 297-310. [PMID:11301346]

5. Jiang X, Kim HE, Shu H, Zhao Y, Zhang H, Kofron J, Donnelly J, Burns D, Ng SC, Rosenberg S et al.. (2003) Distinctive roles of PHAP proteins and prothymosin-alpha in a death regulatory pathway. Science, 299 (5604): 223-6. [PMID:12522243]

6. Newton AS, Glória PM, Gonçalves LM, dos Santos DJ, Moreira R, Guedes RC, Santos MM. (2010) Synthesis and evaluation of vinyl sulfones as caspase-3 inhibitors. A structure-activity study. Eur J Med Chem, 45 (9): 3858-63. [PMID:20541849]

7. Onouchi Y, Ozaki K, Buns JC, Shimizu C, Hamada H, Honda T, Terai M, Honda A, Takeuchi T, Shibuta S et al.. (2010) Common variants in CASP3 confer susceptibility to Kawasaki disease. Hum Mol Genet, 19 (14): 2898-906. [PMID:20423928]

8. Putt KS, Chen GW, Pearson JM, Sandhorst JS, Hoagland MS, Kwon JT, Hwang SK, Jin H, Churchwell MI, Cho MH et al.. (2006) Small-molecule activation of procaspase-3 to caspase-3 as a personalized anticancer strategy. Nat Chem Biol, 2 (10): 543-50. [PMID:16936720]

9. Scott CW, Sobotka-Briner C, Wilkins DE, Jacobs RT, Folmer JJ, Frazee WJ, Bhat RV, Ghanekar SV, Aharony D. (2003) Novel small molecule inhibitors of caspase-3 block cellular and biochemical features of apoptosis. J Pharmacol Exp Ther, 304 (1): 433-40. [PMID:12490620]

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C14: Caspase: Caspase 3. Last modified on 25/09/2018. Accessed on 25/10/2025. IUPHAR/BPS Guide to PHARMACOLOGY, https://www.guidetomalariapharmacology.org/GRAC/ObjectDisplayForward?objectId=1619.