Cell death [electronic resource]

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Significant progress toward understanding the molecular control of apoptosis has been made in recent years, due largely to the discovery of a family of cysteine proteases named caspases (Alnemri, 1997; Cohen, 1997; Los et al., 1999; Salvesen and Dixit, 1997; Thornberry and Lazebnik, 1998; Wolf and Green, 1999).