Caspases Sentence Examples

There are many such caspases within an organism, which work together in a proteolytic cascade to activate themselves and one other.

Once activated caspases act as cysteine proteases, using a cysteine side chain for catalyzing peptide bond cleavage at aspartyl residues in their substrates.

Caspases, Key Apoptotic Proteins Virtually all animal cells contain caspases, but they occur as inactive zymogens that can do no harm.