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Characterization of mice deficient in interleukin-1 beta converting enzyme.
Journal of cellular biochemistry - 1 Jan 1997
Li P, Allen H, Banerjee S, Seshadri T
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Interleukin-1 beta converting enzyme (ICE) processes the inactive prolL-1 beta to the proinflammatory mature IL-1 beta. ICE belongs to a family of cysteine proteases that have been implicated in apoptosis. To address the biological functions of ICE, we generated ICE-deficient mice through gene ta...
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