Protein Name cysteine sulfinic acid decarboxylase
Organism Rattus norvegicus
Gene ID 60356
Gene Symbol

Csad

UniProt Q64611 (CSAD_RAT), B5LSW7 (B5LSW7_RAT)
Relationships Total Number of functionally related compound(s) : 32
Total Number of Articles : 37
Description

cysteine sulfinic acid decarboxylase

Gene Summary

Enables sulfinoalanine decarboxylase activity. Involved in L-cysteine catabolic process to hypotaurine and L-cysteine catabolic process to taurine. Located in cytoplasm. Orthologous to human CSAD (cysteine sulfinic acid decarboxylase). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]

synonyms
  • cysteine sulfinic acid decarboxylase
  • aspartate 1-decarboxylase
  • cysteine-sulfinate decarboxylase
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Properties