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Caspases are a family of Cysteine Proteases that function
in Apoptosis
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Currently there are 13 known members of the Caspase family
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The first of these to be discovered was Caspase-1
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It was identified based on its sequence similarity to the
C.elegans “death gene” ced-13
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The name caspase is an abbreviation of the phrase Cysteine
requiring ASPartate proteASE
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