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The insect caspases.
Apoptosis : an international journal on programmed cell death - 1 Mar 2009
Cooper Dawn M, Granville David J, Lowenberger Carl
Abstract excerpt
Developmental and tissue homeostasis is a delicate balance between cell proliferation and cell death. The activation of caspases, a conserved family of cysteine proteases, is a main event in the initiation and execution of programmed cell death. While caspases have been characterized from many organisms, comparatively little is known about insect caspases. In Drosophila melanogaster, seven caspases have been...
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