caspase

A noun referring to any of a group of proteases that mediate apoptosis, or programmed cell death.

• 🇩🇪Substantiv, das jede aus einer Gruppe von Proteasen bezeichnet, die die Apoptose, den programmierten Zelltod, vermitteln.

1. Protease in apoptosis C2 formal scientific

   Any of a group of protease enzymes that play a central role in mediating programmed cell death (apoptosis).

   • Caspases are activated during the early stages of apoptosis.
   • The scientist studied how caspases cleave specific cellular proteins.
   • Inhibiting caspases can prevent unwanted cell death in certain diseases.

   🇩🇪Protease in der Apoptose

• caspases plural form
• caspases' possessive plural form
• caspase's possessive singular form