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Article Dans Une Revue Cell Death and Differentiation Année : 2008

The enigma of caspase-2: the laymen's view

G Krumschnabel
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F Bock
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C Manzl
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A Villunger
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Résumé

Proteolysis of cellular substrates by caspases (cysteine-dependent aspartate-specific proteases) is one of the hallmarks of apoptotic cell death. Although the activation of apoptotic caspases is considered a 'late-stage' event in apoptosis signaling, past the commitment stage, one caspase family member, caspase-2, splits the cell death community into half-those searching for evidence of an apical initiator function of this molecule and those considering it as an amplifier of the apoptotic caspase cascade, at best, if relevant for apoptosis at all. This review screens past and present biochemical as well as genetic evidence for caspase-2 function in cell death signaling and beyond.

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hal-02088205 , version 1 (02-04-2019)

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G Krumschnabel, B. Sohm, F Bock, C Manzl, A Villunger. The enigma of caspase-2: the laymen's view. Cell Death and Differentiation, 2008, ⟨10.1038/cdd.2008.170⟩. ⟨hal-02088205⟩
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