Controlling caspase activity in life and death
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Controlling caspase activity in life and death
Every day, billions of human cells terminate their normal activities and launch intrinsic suicide pathways. Timely cell death is orchestrated by destructive functions encoded by dying cells, such as caspase proteases in the case of apoptotic or pyroptotic cell death. Caspases cleave specific intracellular substrates to kill and dismantle cells destined for elimination, and their dysregulation l...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLOS Genetics
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1553-7404
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006545