STRUCTURAL GENE OF SWINE CASPASE FAMILY

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a caspase active protein, particularly swine caspase-1 or caspase-3. SOLUTION: A protein comprising either of specific two kinds of amino acid sequences derived from swine, a protein which comprises an amino acid sequence obtained by deleting, substituting or adding one or plural numbers of amino acids to the above amino acid sequence and exhibits caspase activity and a DNA encoding these proteins or a DNA complementary to the DNA are obtained.