Motivation: The caspase family of cysteine proteases play essential roles in key biological processes such as programmed cell death, differentiation, proliferation, necrosis and …
Background Caspases belong to a class of cysteine proteases which function as critical effectors in cellular processes such as apoptosis and inflammation by cleaving substrates …
M Piippo, N Lietzén, OS Nevalainen, J Salmi… - BMC …, 2010 - Springer
Background Caspases are a family of proteases that have central functions in programmed cell death (apoptosis) and inflammation. Caspases mediate their effects through aspartate …
Y Bao, S Marini, T Tamura, M Kamada… - Briefings in …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
As one of the few irreversible protein posttranslational modifications, proteolytic cleavage is involved in nearly all aspects of cellular activities, ranging from gene regulation to cell life …
F Li, Y Wang, C Li, TT Marquez-Lago… - Briefings in …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The roles of proteolytic cleavage have been intensively investigated and discussed during the past two decades. This irreversible chemical process has been frequently reported to …
Caspases are enzymes belonging to a conserved family of c ysteine-dependent asp artic- specific prote ases that are involved in vital cellular processes and play a prominent role in …
Proteases are enzymes that specifically cleave the peptide backbone of their target proteins. As an important type of irreversible post-translational modification, protein cleavage …
Motivation: Caspases and granzyme B (GrB) are important proteases involved in fundamental cellular processes and play essential roles in programmed cell death, necrosis …
C Backes, J Kuentzer, HP Lenhof… - Nucleic acids …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Caspases and granzyme B are proteases that share the primary specificity to cleave at the carboxyl terminal of aspartate residues in their substrates. Both, caspases and granzyme B …