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Facts about FAS-associated death domain protein.
Active caspase-8 initiates the subsequent cascade of caspases mediating apoptosis. Involved in interferon-mediated antiviral immune response, playing a part in the positive regulation of interferon signaling.
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | FADD |
| Uniprot: | Q13158 |
| Entrez: | 8772 |

| Belongs to: |
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| No superfamily |

FADD; Fas (TNFRSF6)-associated via death domain; FAS-associated death domain protein; FAS-associating death domain-containing protein; GIG3; Growth-inhibiting gene 3 protein; Mediator of receptor induced toxicity; mediator of receptor-induced toxicity; MGC8528; MORT1; MORT1Fas-associating protein with death domain; protein FADD
Mass (kDA):
23.279 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 11q13.3 |
| Sequence: | 11; NC_000011.10 (70203296..70207390) |
Expressed in a wide variety of tissues, except for peripheral blood mononuclear leukocytes.




PMID: 7538907 by Chinnaiyan A.M., et al. FADD, a novel death domain-containing protein, interacts with the death domain of Fas and initiates apoptosis.
PMID: 7536190 by Boldin M.P., et al. A novel protein that interacts with the death domain of Fas/APO1 contains a sequence motif related to the death domain.
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