Caspase
id:
caspase-185-10925524
title:
Caspase
text:
Caspases are a family of protease enzymes playing essential roles in programmed cell death. They are named caspases due to their specific cysteine protease activity – a cysteine in its active site nucleophilically attacks and cleaves a target protein only after an aspartic acid residue. As of 2009, there are 12 confirmed caspases in humans and 10 in mice, carrying out a variety of cellular functions. The role of these enzymes in programmed cell death was first identified in 1993, with their func
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Family of cysteine proteases
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspase
date created:
2003-08-07T12:35:18Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T20:28:53Z
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fields total:
13
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