Title: Relationship of Caspase family and apoptosis
Abstract: Apoptosis is a regulatory physiological process to cell death.The signal cascade triggered by caspases plays a key role in apoptosis.The two main apoptotic signal pathways are the cytochrome c/dATP-dependent one and that triggered by death receptors.Effector caspases activated by initiator caspases,which subsequently cleave death substrates and lead to apoptosis.The review rests on the relationship between caspases and apoptosis,and illustrates their biological characteristics and molecular mechanisms of the functional role.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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