Caspases: an ancient cellular sword of Damocles.
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2004-01
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Caspases are a family of cysteine proteases homologous to the Caenorhabditis elegans programmed cell death gene product CED-3. Caspases and their distant relatives, meta- and paracaspases, have been found in phylogenetically distant nonmetazoan groups, including plants, fungi and prokaryotes. This review summarizes the current information on the mechanisms and functions of non-mammalian caspases and their relatives in apoptotic and nonapoptotic processes, and explores the possible evolutionary origin of the caspase family.
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Boyce, M, A Degterev and J Yuan (2004). Caspases: an ancient cellular sword of Damocles. Cell death and differentiation, 11(1). pp. 29–37. 10.1038/sj.cdd.4401339 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/19708.
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