caspase

(thing) by matsmats Thu Jul 06 2000 at 18:29:37

Caspases are a class of cysteine proteases found in all vertebrates (and some invertebrates such as Drosophila) that are the effector proteases of apoptosis, or programmed cell death.

Thirteen members of the caspase family have been described so far in mammals.

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