Caspase 14 Polyclonal antibody

Caspase14 belongs to the caspase family of cysteinyl aspartate-specific proteinases that frequently play a central role in apoptosis. Caspase14 exist as inactive proenzymes that undergo proteolytic processing to produce large and small subunits (p20 and p10) at Ile152/Lys153 residues, which is different to other caspases (Asp residue). Caspase14 plays a role in protein maturation of filaggrin, and possibly in DNA repair. Overexpression of Caspase14 has been detected in several of epithelial malignancies, indicating that Caspase14 could play a role in carcinogenesis and disease progression of cancers. Caspase14 can binds the apoptosis-inducing factor (AIF) indicating that caspase14 may be an anti-apoptotic protein. In the LADC specimens, two bands can be detected with MW of 35 kDa and 37 kDa which represent Caspase14 and the phosphorylated Caspase14(pCasp-14) respectively. (PMID:21567094, 12200134, 10203698, 17515931, 16061209). This antibody can recognise all the forms of Caspase14.