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CYSTEINE-CONTAINING ASPARTATE-SPECIFIC PROTEASE [1 record]

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Record 1 2017-02-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biochemistry
  • Molecular Biology
DEF

Any of several intracellular proteases that have a cysteine residue at their active site, that cleave substrate proteins at specific aspartic acid residues, and that are involved in the initiation and mediation of apoptosis.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biochimie
  • Biologie moléculaire
DEF

Protéase à cystéine qui, en hydrolysant des liaisons peptidiques qui sont situées après un aspartate, joue un rôle essentiel dans l’apoptose, dans les phénomènes inflammatoires ou dans la réponse immunitaire.

OBS

caspase : terme et définition publiés au Journal officiel de la République française le 19 septembre 2015.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Bioquímica
  • Biología molecular
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