caspase

German: Caspase
Japanese: カスパーゼ

Enzymology. An enzyme of the family of proteases that cleaves proteins after the amino acid aspartic acid. Caspases play a key role in inflammation and apoptosis, the programmed cell death. Caspases contain the amino acid cysteine in the active center.

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