NCBI Accession #
NP_196040.1
NCBI GenBank Nucleotide #
NM_120502.3
NCBI Official Full Name
metacaspase 9
NCBI Official Synonym Symbols
AtMC9; AtMCP2f; F21E1.120; F21E1_120; MCP2f; metacaspase 2f; metacaspase 9
NCBI Protein Information
metacaspase 9
NCBI Summary
Encodes a putative metacaspase. Arabidopsis contains three type I MCP genes (MCP1a-c) and six type II MCP genes (MCP2a#Aeif): AtMCP1a/At5g64240, AtMCP1b/At1g02170, AtMCP1c/At4g25110, AtMCP2a/At1g79310, AtMCP2b/At1g79330, AtMCP2c/At1g79320, AtMCP2d/At1g79340, AtMCP2e/At1g16420, AtMCP2f/At5g04200.
UniProt Synonym Gene Names
MCP2F; AtMC9; AtMCP2f
UniProt Protein Name
Metacaspase-9
UniProt Synonym Protein Names
Metacaspase-9 subunit p20Metacaspase-9 subunit p10Alternative name(s):Metacaspase 2f; AtMCP2f
UniProt Primary Accession #
Q9FYE1
UniProt Secondary Accession #
Q8LCR8
UniProt Related Accession #
Q9FYE1
UniProt Comments
Cysteine protease that cleaves specifically after arginine or lysine residues. Does not cleave caspase-specific substrates. Required for proteolytic processing of GRI (PubMed:25398910).